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Company: Southern New England Telephone and Woodbury Telephone
Current Parent Company: Frontier Communications
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Penalty: $561,000
Year: 2002
Date: December 12, 2002
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: Southern New England Telephone and Woodbury Telephone agreed to pay refunds to customers who had been charged rental for rotary telephones they had never possessed or had returned. Between them 748 customers were refunded $561,000
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Connecticut Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Connecticut
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Connecticut
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: telecommunications
Specific Industry of Current Parent: telecommunications
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