calling cards

For married members of the military, the holidays are either special or especially miserable, depending on your family's perspective and the soldier's deployment status. Not one to give holiday bonuses (with which to buy that new stove I've been desiring), the military instead showers its troops...

Verizon Communications Inc. has agreed to give the District of Columbia 2,500 calling cards to end an investigation by the D.C. attorney general's office into unused balances on calling cards bought by consumers. Verizon declined to comment on the settlement.

An international calling card company that markets mainly to Latino communities agreed to refund Maryland consumers to settle allegations it sold cards short of the advertised number of minutes, state Attorney General Douglas Gansler says. Telmex USA LLC denied it violated the state's consumer...

Depending on who you ask, prepaid calling cards are either a tremendous rip-off or a fantastic money saver -- but based on an ongoing government crackdown against shady operators, lots of customers are getting far less than they paid for. In 2007, the Federal Trade Commission created a joint...

One of the biggest telephone calling card distributors in the country agreed to pay $1.3 million to settle a federal lawsuit accusing the firm of shorting immigrants and lower-income users their promised time -- often by half. Some users also were charged for calls that were never connected, the...