Way back in 2014 (when the Mobile Internet Resource Center was still new!) we covered a story about the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) suing AT&T for deceptively selling "unlimited" data plans that were in practice being hard-throttled after just 5GB of usage a month. This pressure from the FTC forced AT&T and other carriers to become much clearer in disclosing the actual true limits on so-called-unlimited plans, and it also ushered in the age of "network management" where many unlimited plans were only slowed down temporarily when on actively congested towers.
Network management is a vast improvement in user experience compared to AT&T's former practice of kicking unlimited plans into the slow lane for the remainder of the billing cycle, regardless of congestion.
But what about all the customers who had plans before the new fine print emerged, and who suffered from hard throttling what AT&T had sold them as an "unlimited" plan?
The wheels of justice turn slowly - but the FTC yesterday announced that AT&T has at last settled.
If you were an AT&T customer back-in-the-day - you may soon be getting a refund check sent your way!
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