Court rules in favor of FTC to proceed with 2014 lawsuit against AT&T

This is another page in the book of AT&T’s still ongoing lawsuit with the FTC where the US Federal Trade Commision sued AT&T. The original lawsuit was filed in 2014 when AT&T was accused of throttling unlimited data subscribers as early as 5GB into the month without properly informing them.

AT&T’s defense was that it was its common carrier status supposedly did not make it eligible to be under the jurisditcion of the FTC. in 2015, a judge rejected the claim, then in 2016, a three-member appeal’s court expemted AT&T from this lawsuit because of its common carrier status. Today, the Wall…


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