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FCC To Fine AT&T $100M For Throttling Unlimited Data Customers
New submitter Wargames writes: According to the article in the New York Times, AT&T is getting fined $100,000,000 for its doublespeak redefinition of the word "Unlimited". The FCC says AT&T failed to adequately notify its customers that they could receive speeds slower than the normal network speeds AT&T advertised and that these actions violated the FCC's 2010 Open Internet Order. “Unlimited means unlimited,” Travis LeBlanc, the F.C.C.’s chief of the enforcement bureau, said in a statement on Wednesday. “As today’s action demonstrates, the commission is committed to holding accountable those broadband providers who fail to be fully transparent about data limits.”
What does that amount to? A month? A week's worth of revenue? Show some teeth dammit! Revoke their charter...
I'm more interested in how much $100 M could have upgraded their infrastructure to *actually* provide said services...
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .