• The Wall Street Journal, Friday, April 17, 2009 9:30 AM

Satellite-television provider DirecTV Group has agreed to pay $2.3 million and cable TV company Comcast will pay $900,000 for violating the federal "do not call" law. The companies were accused of having employees or telemarketers call consumers who specifically told the companies not to call them again.

A DirecTV telemarketer also agreed to pay a $115,000 penalty for making prerecorded sales calls to consumers who asked not to be called, violating a 2005 court order barring it from making such prerecorded calls. DirecTV paid $5.3 million under that 2005 order.

Last month, the FTC also filed a complaint against Dish Network and two of its telemarketers, alleging they called consumers whose phone numbers are on the National Do Not Call Registry, which began in 2003. Those cases are pending.

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