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- African Ascension
- Mr. Beasley is Founder/President of African Ascension, human resources director at the Antioch Baptist Church North and delegate to the National Baptist Convention.
I was in the eighth grade when we moved to Cincinnati In 1956. I graduated in the first graduating class of Taft High School, after which I enlisted in the Air Force and served for 21 years. We had our own Civil Rights Movement in the military, because we were the last to get promoted and the first to get demoted.
I now live in Atlanta, right now, I'm involved with a project that is trying to link up a billion Africans throughout the globe -- Africans on the continent to those of African descent. It's called African Ascension. With that, we can leverage opportunities. It's building these kind of linkages that I want to spend the rest of my life doing.
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Dear Mr. Beasley:
The ringtone market in the United States is reaching one billion dollars in sales; can your organization come to the aid of United States consumers regarding ringtone purchases? The aid would consist of getting Congress to appoint an independent company to monitor ringtone sales in the wake of AT&T Mobility’s ringtone fraud settlement. AT&T Mobility used deceptive Internet advertisement to offer free ringtones, when consumers applied to get those ringtones AT&T unknowingly to consumers charged them for those ringtones.
It was by complaints to the state of Florida’s consumer protection that got their Attorney General Bill McCollum involved; because the fraud took place over the Internet there may be consumers in other states that are victims to the fraud. Would your orgaization also be able to inquire to Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker to see if Georgians may have unknowing been charged for ringtones through the Internet advertisement they believed where free ringtones?
Additionally, there is no independent monitoring of ringtones sales to protect artist, ringtone carriers are giving ringtone payouts based on an honor system, can this topic also be made part of your inquiry?
Furthermore, this request should also extend to Georgia customers of Verizon, Sprint/Nextel, Alltel and T-Mobile, carriers who are also being investigated regarding fraud to consumers.
Georgia Resident
It is good that someone has drawn attention to this matter of ringtones. AT@T should be held accountable for this matter severely, and yes some kind of industry standard should be place to track ringtone sales.
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