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Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2022 21:41:32 +0000 (UTC)
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by: Sean Murphy - Sun, 10 Apr 2022 21:41 UTC

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