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'It alleges that the company lied to customers about its “unlimited” data plans because it throttled their data if they ever went over a certain threshold. '
'In the summer of 2015, the Federal Communications Commission fined AT&T $100 million for similar deceptive marketing practices involving its data plans. '
'On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission announced that AT&T will pay $60 million to settle a case with the agency. '
'The settlement requires AT&T to deposit that $60 million into a fund that will be used to provide “partial refunds” to customers who signed up for unlimited data plans before the year 2011 (when the company’s throttling policy first went into effect). '
' ET 11/5/2019: Included statement from AT&T. '
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