L2Networks, the company once professing to provide local telecommunications competition for Mediacom, said Thursday that they believe Mediacom violated the law by attempting to get proprietary information via wire fraud and identity theft.

In a statement to the media Thursday, L2Network officials said that they have asked State Attorneys General in Iowa and Georgia to launch formal criminal investigations into what it calls a “suspicious series of events,” which were ultimately determined to be emanating from a Mediacom call center in Des Moines, Iowa.

L2Networks alleges that its call center staff began receiving multiple inbound calls from the same commercial customer repeatedly requesting technical information about that customer’s account.

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