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Dec. 23, 2004

Verizon To Pay

LOS ANGELES - A judge Tuesday ordered Verizon to pay $88 million to California consumers for charging rental fees on obsolete rotary phones long after they had been replaced with modern equipment.

LOS ANGELES - A judge Tuesday ordered Verizon to pay $88 million to California consumers for charging rental fees on obsolete rotary phones long after they had been replaced with modern equipment.
        Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Peter Litchman signed the order, alleging that the company, then called GTE, billed its primarily Southern California customers a small monthly charge from 1988 to 2001, labeled only "rental equipmen...

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