Satellite TV Law Suit
The State of Washington Attorney General filed a law suit against the nation’s largest satellite television provider DirecTV today alleging ‘deception’ was built into their business model.
Great start Rob, you must have a long list of major US companies to file litigation against behind this one.
Satellite TV providers, cable television companies, cellular telephone providers, credit card providers — most all of them seem to build deception into their marketing and customer relationship… and you really don’t need to survey many of their customers to get a good picture of it.
The only thing that’s surprising about this law suit is that DirecTV was so arrogant they didn’t quickly settle out of court for a fraction of what they’ve likely soaked their customers for — and that they may well now have similar litigation filed in most every other state.
For completeness I’ve included a link to the complaint filed against DirecTV by the State of Washington. You can search for more information on the case, and (humorous) responses from DirecTV.
State of Washington v DirectTV (King County Superior Court, WA)
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