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"                      <p class=\"imgtitle\">McCollum</p>           TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum reached a bit of a personal milestone Thursday, settling with his 10th prepaid calling card company.<br /><br />Touch-Tel Partners will cease any deceptive advertising, provide all the minutes it advertises and submit to three years of auditing by McCollum's office. The settlement closely follows <a href=\"http://www.legalnewsline.com/news/213469-mccollum-touts-calling-card-settlement\" class=\"copy\">nine others reached in June.</a><br /><br />Touch-Tel must also pay $125,000 for investigative costs and future enforcement efforts. The first nine companies to settle were: IDT America, Inc.; Union Telecom Alliance; Total Call International, Inc.; Blackstone Calling Card, Inc.; CVT Prepaid Solutions, Inc.; Dollar Phone Enterprise, Inc.; STi Prepaid, LLC; Alternatel, Inc.; and Cristel Telecommunications, LLC.<br /><br />Those companies agreed to provide more than $1 million to McCollum.<br /><br />McCollum's investigation began in July 2007 after he received more than 200 complaints about the calling card industry.<br /><br />Those complaints ranged from hidden fees to false advertising that claimed \"unlimited minutes.\"<br /><br />Specifically, Touch-Tel was rounding up call times to the nearest three-minute increment, McCollum said.  He added that one poster had a fees and surcharges disclaimer printed only in English despite the rest of it containing all Spanish.<br /><br /><em>From Legal Newsline: Reach John O'Brien by e-mail at john@legalnewsline.com.</em>"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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