AT&T settles lawsuit over cellphone fees
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AT&T Inc will offer refunds to customers who have been charged for third-party cellphone content, including ringtones, news and other alerts, as part of a settlement of a group of class-action lawsuits, court papers available online show.
The top U.S. phone company's wireless unit AT&T Mobility agreed to refund third-party mobile content fees that it billed from Jan. 1, 2004 through May 30 this year, the papers show.
The plaintiffs had accused AT&T Mobility of charging its wireless subscribers for unauthorized third-party mobile content. Similar lawsuits are pending in state and federal courts nationwide, the papers show.
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