Security News > 2024 > April > Former AT&T customers get $6.3 million in data throttling refunds
The Federal Trade Commission is sending out $6,300,000 in partial refunds to 267,000 former AT&T Wireless customers as part of a data throttling settlement in 2019.
The action follows a 2014 lawsuit by the FTC claiming that AT&T did not fully disclose the terms of its so-called "Unlimited data plans" to customers, specifically the fact that their data speeds would be significantly reduced after they hit a certain data consumption threshold.
Former customers had not received any share of the settlement.
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