Verizon sues telemarketers

The carriers tend to get beat up a lot. Sometimes deservingly so, other times they're the easiest target:

• "I ran out of gas, dammit Sprint!"
• "This whole Iraq thing - clearly a standards battle between CDMA and GSM."
• "The neighbor's dog -- I think his name is Cingular -- just crapped on my lawn."

So when a carrier does something really Really REALLY right, it should be recognized. Please recognize Verizon today for suing two spamming telemarketers (article on San Jose Mercury News) and reinforcing a message that spammers are not welcome on any communications channel:

Verizon Wireless filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a San Diego-based telemarketer that allegedly sent unsolicited recorded calls to more than 1 million California cell-phone customers this summer.

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Verizon filed a second similar lawsuit Wednesday against Coral Springs, Fla.-based Resort Marketing Trends, also seeking an injunction. The suit alleges that the company made an estimated 280,000 unsolicited calls since July to Verizon cell phone customers, mainly in New Jersey.

Last year, if you recall, Verizon sued 51 individuals it said exploited the Verizon network to send millions of unsolicited text messages.

Thank you Verizon. Good job.