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 three 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.

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