FTC, AT&T settles lawsuit from 2014 on data decline: court
FILE PHOTO: An AT&T logo is pictured in Pasadena, California, USA, January 24, 2018. REUTERS / Mario Anzuoni
(Reuters) ̵[ads1]1; Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and AT&T Inc reached a settlement agreement on a 2014 A case that accused the company of slowing down data sent to wireless devices showed a federal court on Friday.
U.S .. The District Court of San Francisco said that the parties requested 90 days' stay for the FTC to review and vote on the proposed settlement. The value of the settlement was not disclosed.
The FTC and AT&T reached the agreement on August 2.
In 2014, the FTC sued AT&T on the grounds that US # 2 wireless operator failed to inform consumers that it would slow down the speed of heavy data users on unlimited plans. .
The intense back and forth battle between the FTC and the company included dismissal of the case in 2017 because AT&T was a regular carrier and because of this was not subject to FTC jurisdiction.
The case is Federal Trade Commission v AT&T Mobility Llc, United States District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division, Case No. 14-cv-04785-EMC.
Reporting by Nivedita Balu in Bengaluru; Editing by Cynthia Osterman
