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PSC issues $420,000 fine for telemarketing

Mississippi regulators have ordered a company named Tailbone Security to pay $420,000 for violating the state’s ban on unwanted telemarketing.

Commissioners voted 3-0 Tuesday, June 4 to impose the penalty against Tailbone, which is based in Boynton Beach, Fla.

It’s the latest in a series of large fines that the Public Service Commission has issued for companies that violate the state’s prohibition on calling people who have registered their phone numbers to get telemarketers to stop calling. […]