Multiple State Attorneys General Sue Telecom Company for Billions of Illegal Robocalls
Avid Telecom, a Voice over Internet Protocol provider, is being sued by nearly every attorney general in the country for allegedly violating consumer protection and telemarketing laws by facilitating more than 7.5 billion calls to numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry. The AGs allege that Avid facilitated more than 24.5 billion calls between December 2018 and January 2023, and more than 90% of those calls lasted less than 15 seconds, indicating they were likely robocalls. Avid allegedly ignored warnings about suspected spam calls and sold phone numbers, data, and dialing software that enabled customers to make mass robocalls.