Chicago attorney Myles McGuire on behave of Nikolay Antonov has filed a class action complaint in Cook County, against Thumbplay Inc. a mobile content provider that claims that the billing methods used have no “checks and safeguards.” to protect consumers’ from unathorized charges on their wireless bills.
“Cell phones are morphing into credit cards, but the same security
procedures don’t apply to phone numbers, which are public information,”
said Myles McGuire whose firm successfully reach a third-party agreement with AT&T.
The suit implicates players on all levels of the industry: aggregators,
copyright licensors, and affiliate
marketers, Internet advertising networks who fail to clearly display
the “service’s price, subscription period and cancellation procedures,”
the suit states.
A Thumplay PR representative sent Wireless and Mobile News a rebuttal at 11:11 am which we posted at 11:19.