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The FTC’s $60 million settlement with AT&T, announced in 2019, resolved allegations that the wireless provider failed to adequately disclose to its unlimited data plan customers that, if they reach a certain amount of data use in a given billing cycle, AT&T would reduce—or “throttle”—their data speeds to the point that many common mobile phone applications, such as web browsing and video streaming, became difficult or nearly impossible to use
FTC Sends Refunds to Former AT&T Wireless Customers Who Were Subject to Data Throttling Henry Liu, Director of the Bureau of Competition 2024
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