The NSA made Qwest to be cheered, and Verizon to be sued
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America doesn’t react in the same way for the Big Four US telcos, AT&T, Verizon, BellSouth and Qwest.
Last week, Americans learned that Qwest stepped out of the NSA program. Despite the severe and numerous complains on the company quality of service, its reputation jolted last week, and even leads the company to gain extra customers, according to the NY Times. Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio is praised for its good karma by some ad-hoc fan sites. This is good for Qwest but, of course, won’t enhance the quality of its service, referred as “the Qworst” since several years.
But Verizon doesn’t share the same “season finale”. Although it participates in the NSA program as AT&T and BellSouth have been doing, Verizon is the second guy of the band to be sued (the EFF is after AT&T).
Bruce Afran and Carl Meyer, both attorneys from NYC, have decided to charge the company for violating the Telecommunications Act and the Constitution by turning over the records to the government. The lawsuit has been filed in federal district court in Manhattan.
Verizon won’t take any statements. The company said everything related to this case is strictly confidential.
… Psst: What do you think of all this? Is it going too far or will you want to see AT&T and BellSouth also indicted.
May 16, 2006 | By Nuno
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