AT&T is about to get away with its bogus $1.99 ‘administrative fee’
by Sean Hollister from The Verge - All Posts on (#5Z600)
Since 2013, AT&T has quietly bilked customers out of hundreds of millions of dollars with a bogus administrative fee," a fee it more than doubled to $1.99 a month in 2018. For a few years there, a California class-action lawsuit made it seem like AT&T might finally get taken to task. But in May, both sides told a judge they'd settle for just $14 million - meaning customers may get less than 10 percent of what they paid AT&T, while AT&T gets to keep on charging them.
In June, the judge tentatively approved that settlement - and today, July 29th, we're hearing that AT&T is texting and emailing customers a link to a currently-blank website where the settlement claim form will live.
According to the settlement agreement in Vianu v. AT&T...