FCC Unveils New Rules for Cellphone Billing

The Federal communications Commissions unvieled proposted rules that would require mobile- phone companies to alert customers who are close to exceding limits on monthly data or voice minutes. The alert will be in the form of a txt msg. Earlier this year, the FCC released a study that suggested upward of 30 million Americans have experienced bill shock or have recieved a bill that was astronomicaly higher than they expected. The company have confired that they have recieved 700 complaints about the issue in the first half of the year and 67% of those complaints were about bills be more than $100 dollars or more than expected.