• AT&T to pay $60M fine for 'unlimited' data throttling policy [telecom]

    From Sean Murphy@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 10 21:41:32 2022
    By Bevin Fletcher

    After reaching terms of a settlement this summer, the Federal Trade
    Commission disclosed on Tuesday that AT&T will pay $60 million for
    misleading millions of customers by obscuring its throttling practices
    while charging them for so-called "unlimited" data plans.

    AT&T approved final terms of the settlement back in August, but the
    carrier's penalty was only revealed yesterday, after the FTC voted to
    approve the stipulated final order, which still needs the signature of
    a District Court judge in California.

    The FTC in 2014 accused AT&T of promising consumers unlimited data but
    failing to make clear that speeds would be reduced, sometimes after
    customers had only used as little as 2GB of data. The practice started
    back in 2011, and according to the FTC affected more than 3.5 million customers.

    https://www.fiercewireless.com/regulatory/at-t-settles-ftc-unlimited-data-throttling-lawsuit-for-60m

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