Regarding Christiano’s companies, they are both culpable and party to the FTC complaint. Specifically, NetDotSolutions, Inc. licenses software to Jones that permits him to place autodial robocalls. Similarly, TeraMESH Networks, Inc. leases computer server rack space to Jones that enables him to host, maintain, and update TelWeb software. The FTC alleges that, through TelWeb, Jones’s operation inundates consumers with more than one billion illegal robocalls per year.
“TelWeb allowed users to make billions of robocalls, including calls to phone numbers on the National Do Not Call (DNC) Registry and calls with fake, or spoofed, caller IDs. TelWeb also allowed telemarketers to place outbound calls in campaigns designed to leave messages in consumers’ voicemail boxes — hanging up on people if they answered the phone.”
In the end, the FTC charges Christiano, NetDotSolutions, and TeraMESH with assisting and facilitating: 1) illegal robocalls, 2) calls to number on the DNC Registry, 3) calls with spoofed caller IDs, and 4) abandoned calls, in which TelWeb hung up on consumers who answer.
