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Prison Phone Calls

Global Tel Link will pay $8.8 million to settle a federal class action for using an automated process to force recipients of collect phone calls to cellphones from prisons to establish a billing relationship with it to receive the calls, in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

LOS ANGELES — Global Tel Link will pay $8.8 million to settle a federal class action for using an automated process to force recipients of collect phone calls to cellphones from prisons to establish a billing relationship with it to receive the calls, in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

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