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Quote:The lawyer at the head of a massive class-action lawsuit against Canadian cellphone companies said the service providers have become "addicted" to collecting unnecessary fees from customers.

"When the companies first had cellular service you had to have a wireless fee, and the companies got into the habit of charging this," Tony Merchant, the lawyer who initiated the suit, told CTV Regina.

"When they weren't required to pay the wireless fee, it was sort of like a crack cocaine that they were used to," he said. "They just kept charging, taking the money and mis-describing the money they were receiving."...

full article: http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/TopStor...STORIES_V2&newsitemid=CTVNews%2F20070919%2Fcellphone_suit_070919&showbyline=True