The way to eliminate that, without having to go through, you know, the heroic efforts of most people on this panel, is to simply ban these third-party charges.

So do the math. That's well over a billion dollars in profit.

We would also be interested in looking at, is making sure that the tools--on the law enforcement end, that they have the tools that they need to go after the bad actors.

Thank you. Mr. McCormick, I wanted to follow up with you.

Now, one reason, however, the telephone companies don't really crack down on crammers is, they make money from cramming.

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