This week AT&T agreed to settle a 2014 complaint from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that alleged the carrier “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…throttle their data speeds to the point that many common mobile phone applications…became difficult or nearly impossible to use.”
An AT&T spokesperson told ABC News of the settlement, “Even though it has been years since we applied this network management tool in the way described by the FTC, we believe this is in the best interests of consumers.”
