Wireless internet service provider Bloosurf, valued at $30 million in 2021, has lost "half its customers" and "significant" revenue and cash flow due to T-Mobile's interference, alleged Bloosurf’s complaint Wednesday (docket 8:24-cv-01047) in U.S. District Court for Maryland in Greenbelt in which it seeks $116 million in damages.
Since AT&T announced Saturday that “data-specific fields” were part of a data set involving 7.6 million current and 65.4 million former customers released on the dark web March 16, nine negligence class actions have been filed in U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas, including five by Kendall Law.
Sinclair hires CBN News’ Matthew Galka as a national correspondent in its D.C. bureau to provide reporting for The National Desk, Sinclair’s nationally syndicated news program, and for Sinclair’s broadcast stations ... Metronet taps Craig Cowden, ex-Charter Communications and Bright House Networks, as executive vice president-chief technology and product officer, and Brad Freathy, ex-Verizon Business Group and Charter, as senior vice president-commercial and carrier sales ... GCT Semiconductor, supplier of 5G and 4G semiconductor solutions, adds Synaptics Chair Nelson Chan to its board ... Foreign Policy Research Institute elects Aaron Stein, former chief content officer at War on the Rocks and Metamorphic Media, as its next president, his term beginning April 15 ... Twilio adds Andy Stafman, a partner at Sachem Head Capital Management, to its board, expanding it to 10 members.
LTD Broadband’s opening brief is due May 8 in its petition to review the FCC’s rejection of the company's long-form application for Rural Digital Opportunity Fund support (see 2402070081), said a clerk’s order Friday (docket 24-1017) at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The FCC’s respondent brief is due June 24, and LTD’s reply brief July 24, the order said. LTD is challenging the FCC’s Dec. 4 order denying LTD’s application for review of the Wireline Bureau’s decision to reject the company’s application. LTD is asking the D.C. Circuit to hold the order unlawful and set it aside.
Erica Cardenas seeks injunctive relief and statutory damages to stop debt relief company Creditors Relief from violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by sending unsolicited text messages to phone numbers that are listed on the national do not call registry, said her class action Tuesday (docket 2:24-cv-04214) in U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Newark. A resident of Chula Vista, California, Cardenas listed her number on the national DNC registry Nov. 9, yet she received at least six text messages from Creditors Relief beginning Jan. 15 promoting its debt relief services, the class action said. Creditors Relief “specifically lists cold calling as a job requirement in its job listings,” it added. Former Creditors Relief employees “have posted complaints about the poor quality of leads they were given to call,” it said. Consumers also have posted complaints on the Better Business Bureau website about the unsolicited calls and text messages they received from Creditors Relief, it said. Moreover, the plaintiff has never done business with the company or consented to be called, said her class action. The unauthorized solicitation text messages that Cardenas received from Creditors Relief or on its behalf have harmed her “in the form of annoyance, nuisance, and invasion of privacy,” it said. The text messages have “occupied her phone line, and disturbed the use and enjoyment of her phone,” it said.
Monster Reservation Group engages in unsolicited telemarketing to promote its family vacation reservation services, harming Matthew Miller in the process, alleged Miller’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act complaint Thursday (docket 6:24-cv-00555) in U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Orlando. Miller, a Lake Mary, Florida, resident, seeks injunctive relief to halt Monster’s illegal conduct, “which has resulted in the invasion of privacy, harassment, aggravation, and disruption of his daily life,” said the complaint. He also seeks statutory damages, “and any other available legal or equitable remedies,” it said. Any of Monster’s violations “were knowing, willful, and intentional,” and Monster didn’t maintain procedures “reasonably adapted to avoid any such violation,” it said. Miller’s phone number has been listed on the national do not call registry since June 2020, and Monster is required to check the registry before attempting to call, it said. Yet the plaintiff received multiple identical autodialed calls from numerous phone numbers, which when called, connect back to Monster, said the complaint. Miller reported Monster to the Better Business Bureau, and sought legal representation to stop its “swarm” of unsolicited phone calls, it said. He also used “every resource at his disposal” to avoid Monster’s “unethical marketing scheme,” including sending the company a letter demanding that the calls stop, it said. Monster or its agent responded by denying that Miller had ever been called, it said. Miller estimates the defendant or its agents phoned his cellphone at least 49 times, said the complaint. At no point in time did Miller provide Monster with his express written consent to be contacted, it said.
Insurance firm Keenan & Associates discovered a data breach in its computer systems on Aug. 27, but waited six months before it notified and warned customers that their personally identifiable information (PII) was vulnerable, alleged a negligence class action Thursday (docket 8:24-cv-00544) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Santa Ana.
Intel adds retired Intel executive Stacy Smith, now Kioxia executive chairman, to its board ... TE Connectivity elects Carol Davidson chairman, succeeding John Lynch, retired ... Lumina AI, machine learning and AI company, adds former Microsoft government affairs executive Ed Ingle to its board ... ZMC, private equity firm focused on media, communications, entertainment and tech sectors, promotes Director-Finance Anastasia Marras to chief financial officer ... Transcend, data privacy and governance platform, hires former Grindr Chief Privacy Officer Ron De Jesus as its first field chief privacy officer ... FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announces additions to the Bureau of Media Relations: Raven Hill, from the Maryland Department of Education, as co-deputy director; Becky Lockhart, from the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau; Laura Nichols, ex-Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, as digital director; and Jason Schiavoni, ex-Smithsonian Institution, as website/digital experience director; and the retirements of David Wright from the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau; Wayne Liang, from the Enforcement Bureau; Vanessa Lamb from the Office of Managing Director; and Hillary Burchuk from the Office of Inspector General.
Marketing firm AddShoppers “illicitly tracks persons across the internet, collects their personal information without consent,” and uses it to send direct solicitations, alleged a Friday class action (docket 2:24-cv-01022) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania in Philadelphia against AddShoppers, Nutrisystem and Vivint.
Comcast used “deficient data security practices” by relying on Citrix’s “flawed software applications” that resulted in a “massive and preventable” October data breach, alleged a fraud class action Thursday (docket 2:24-cv-00793) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.