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Wednesday Jun 04, 2008

AT&T Settles Ringtone Class Action Suit

In other AT&T news today, AT&T has settled a class action lawsuit involving unauthorized cell phone charges for mobile content, including ringtones, games and graphics, MediaPost reports:

"The settlement, approved by a Georgia court, includes more than a dozen lawsuits filed by AT&T subscribers nationwide, according to law firm KamberEdelson, lead counsel for the plaintiffs. The suits alleged adequate safeguards were not in place to ensure customers were billed only for services they had purchased."

The report said that at issue were some partnerships AT&T had with mobile content providers that let the companies automatically charge ringtones and other things to customers' accounts—not a good thing, as you could imagine. Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile still face similar suits, according to the article.

Terms of the settlement weren't immediately available, though AT&T is reported to owe $4.3 million just in the plaintiff's legal costs alone.




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