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LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - Frontier Communications faces a lawsuit under California's Private Attorney General law that accuses it of a deceptive pricing scheme.
David Massaro filed suit July 13 in Los Angeles federal court, accusing it of advertising flat monthly rates without disclosing additional service charges. Massaro is represented by the Bellevue, Wash., law firm Hattis & Lukacs.
One such charge is the "internet infrastructure surcharge" for internet service. Also at issue are the VolP administrative fee for phone service and the broadcast TV surcharge and regional sports fee for television service.
"Through this fraudulent scheme Frontier has extracted from its California subscribers hundreds of millions of dollars in the past several years..." the suit says.
The lawsuit is also brought as a proposed class action. The internet fee started in November 2017 has since increased to as much as $6.99 per month, while the phone service fee also costs customers that much per month, the suit says.
The television fees, combined into one, now costs as much as $16.99 per month, the suit says.