Sprint Begins Punishing Customers For FCC's Net Neutrality Rules

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday June 20, 2015 @06:46AM from the unintended-regulatory-consquences dept.

ourlovecanlastforeve writes: A few days ago Sprint announced their intent to stop throttling certain customers' bandwidth in the wake of the FCC fining ATT $100,000,000 for doing the same. Sprint has now begun circulating an internal memo to their front-line reps that the 12-month warranty on non-branded accessories, a featured selling point, will be eliminated. Additional rumors are emerging that Sprint may increase prices on unlimited data plans and stop offering wireline long distance service.

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AT&T's Fine by Fnord666 · 2015-06-20 07:37 · Score: 4, Interesting

AT&T's was fined for "deceptive business practices". It had nothing to do with "net neutrality". If Sprint is reacting to and is concerned about AT&T's fine then that tells me a lot about how Sprint executives truly view their own business practices behind closed doors.

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