Dallas-based AT&T has agreed to pay $60 million to settle charges from the Federal Trade Commission that it used a network management tool to restrict the speeds of mobile data plans advertised as “unlimited.”

The telecommunications giant will distribute the settlement funds to consumers who had their data speeds reduced after a certain threshold of usage, a practice known as throttling, despite purchasing an unlimited plan prior to 2015.

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