The Federal Communications Commission defines cramming as the practice of placing unauthorized, misleading or deceptive charges on your telephone bill.

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To get the money to help connect all U.S. households to the Net, the government would levy new taxes on your telephone landline and on calls made from mobile phones.

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Further you may be faced with a pile of paper that will land on your mat, from the local authority in advance of a telephone adjudication with a solicitor (always the best choice rather than simply having the thing dealt with by exchange of correspondence, though you have the choice).

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Now, but you had described your frequent telephone calls from Ms. Lewinsky as being bordering on annoyance, I think.

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As I said, I've spoken to well over a hundred of you on the telephone and I've visited a number of you in your cities.

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YOU'LL BE SHORTCHANGED Some advocates of a national internet sales tax say such a levy could be made more palatable by combining it with the repeal of federal and perhaps state telephone taxes, which can add up to an almost 20% exaction on your phone calls.

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