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Media contact: National Consumers League \u2013 Carol McKay, carolm@nclnet.org, (412) 945-3242\u00a0or Taun Sterling, tauns@nclnet.org, (202)\u00a0207-2832<\/span><\/p>\n Washington, DC\u2014<\/span>Today, the National\u00a0<\/span>Consumers League, the nation\u2019s pioneering consumer and worker advocacy organization applauded the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for its successful investigation and settlement with AT&T after the wireless provider misled millions of\u00a0<\/span>its\u00a0<\/span>customers. In 2014, the FTC found that AT&T had secretly slowed down or \u201cthrottled\u201d consumers\u2019\u00a0<\/span>I<\/span>nternet speeds on their supposed<\/span>ly<\/span>\u00a0\u201cunlimited\u201d plans and then charged consumers early termination fees if they wanted to switch providers to receive better service. As a result of th<\/span>e\u00a0<\/span>settlement, AT&T will create a $60 million dollar settlement fund that will be paid out to current and former users of AT&T\u2019s \u201cunlimited\u201d plan.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The following statement is attributable to Sally Greenberg,\u00a0<\/span>e<\/span>xecutive\u00a0<\/span>d<\/span>irector of the National Consumers League:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “When consumers are promised unlimited data, they should receive unlimited data. AT&T\u2019s policy of slowing down consumers data, to the point where they could no longer stream videos after using as little as two gigabits of data, is a classic example of bait and switch. NCL applauds the FTC\u2019s efforts to protect consumers from false advertising and unscrupulous business practices in the wireless industry. NCL looks forward to seeing the FTC take additional steps to ensure that the marketplace remains fair and honest for all consumers.”<\/span><\/p>\n ###<\/span><\/p>\n About the National Consumers League<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The National Consumers League, founded in 1899, is America’s pioneer consumer organization. Our mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. For more information, visit www.nclnet.org.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" November 5, 2019 Media contact: National Consumers League \u2013 Carol McKay, carolm@nclnet.org, (412) 945-3242\u00a0or Taun Sterling, tauns@nclnet.org, (202)\u00a0207-2832 Washington, DC\u2014Today, the National\u00a0Consumers League, the nation\u2019s pioneering consumer and worker advocacy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"categories":[285,14,420,415,15,270,281],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15828,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/15828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}