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AT&T just got hit with a $100 million fine after slowing down its unlimited data
By Brian Fung June 17 at 12:00 PM
What you need to know about the $100 million fine against AT&T(0:49)
AT&T is being charged a $100 million fine after slowing down its "unlimited" data. Here's what that means for its users. (Alice Li/The Washington Post)
The Federal Communications Commission slapped AT&T with a $100 million fine Wednesday, accusing the country's second-largest cellular carrier of improperly slowing down Internet speeds for customers who had signed up for "unlimited" data plans.
The FCC found that when customers used up a certain amount of data watching movies or browsing the Web, AT&T "throttled" their Internet speeds so that they were much slower than normal. Millions of AT&T customers were affected by the practice, according to the FCC.
The fine, which AT&T says it will fight, is the largest ever levied by the agency.
AT&T implemented the practice in 2011, prompting thousands of customers to complain to the FCC, according to an agency statement.
By not properly disclosing the policy to consumers who thought they were getting "unlimited" data, the company violated the FCC's rules on corporate transparency, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said in a statement.
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lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)Say and do whatever you want as long as it makes the cash registers ring.
Then when you get caught, weasel out of it the best way you can.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)This is like a parking ticket to us.
babylonsister
(171,070 posts)msongs
(67,420 posts)ProdigalJunkMail
(12,017 posts)but it should go to the customers of ATT who paid for a service they were denied... of course, to be just, the fine would have to be much larger...
sP
Autumn
(45,107 posts)that they paid for the service they were denied.