TON Services agreed to pay $400,000 to the U.S. Treasury, in a co...
TON Services agreed to pay $400,000 to the U.S. Treasury, in a consent decree with the FCC Enforcement Bureau that resulted from an investigation into the company’s lack of compliance with Universal Service Fund contributions requirements. “We cannot and…
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will not tolerate refusals to comply with our contribution rules,” FCC Chmn. Powell said Thurs., saying fair contributions “ensure that the universal service fund remains on a sound footing [and] telecommunications services are available to all Americans.” The bureau said TON operates payphones at travel plazas and provides prepaid calling card services. After the bureau contacted TON in March, the company said its current management team assumed control of the company in late 2003 and didn’t know of potential universal service problems until Jan. 2004. The company said it began correcting the compliance problems before being contacted by the FCC. The bureau said the company had brought itself into compliance by Oct. 1. The bureau said TON claimed it’s owed credits for past overpayment to the USF and is talking to the FCC Wireline Bureau and the Universal Service Administrative Co. about that.