T-Mobile will pay a $48 million fine for throttling ‘unlimited data’ plans
October 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
The FCC caught T-Mobile slowing down connections for heavy data customers — and now, it’s making the company pay for it. In a settlement announced today, T-Mobile agreed to pay $48 million to resolve an investigation into the company’s unlimited data plan.
T-Mobile revealed in 2015 that it was slowing down data for customers in the top 3 percent of data usage, typically translating to 17GB of data per month. The limitation was only revealed after numerous complaints, and came as a surprise to many users The same restriction was placed on MetroPCS customers, who operate on T-Mobile’s network.
