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6 Ohioans sue over rising cost of text messages

September 22, 2008

Text-messaging has become so popular that reports have surfaced about young people who supposedly have developed addictions to the mode of wireless communication.
But in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Toledo, six northwestern Ohioans allege that cell-telephone companies providing text-messaging services have become addicted to profits generated by the business.

The group, represented by Toledo attorney David Zoll, accuses five major service providers of colluding to jack up the prices in violation of federal antitrust laws. The suit seeks class-action status on behalf of “tens of thousands of purchasers … throughout the state of Ohio and the United States.”

“The American public is really getting fleeced here,” Zoll said. “The purpose of this suit is to try to put consumers on equal footing with these multinational conglomerates that control the texting market.”

Companies named in the suit denied wrongdoing.

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