FTC Alleged that AT&T Misled Consumers by Falsely Promising Unlimited Data

摘要

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a federal court complaint against AT&T Mobility, LLC, charging that the company had misled millions of its smart-phone customers by charging them for "unlimited" data plans while reducing their data speeds, in some cases by nearly 90 percent. The FTC's complaint alleged that the company had failed to adequately disclose to its customers on unlimited data plans that, if they reached 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, GPS navigation and watching streaming video, became difficult or nearly impossible to use.