“The financial benefits that the Class Members will realize from the Settlement are far from academic,” an Illinois District Court judge noted in his just released approval of a deal between tens of thousands of consumers and AT&T Wireless. That’s putting it mildly. The settlement in question requires AT&T to refund or credit wireless customers based on an estimate of $1.152 billion. When various legalities kick in, the final cash payout will come to around $956,160,000. Read the comments on this post

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The law that will make AT&T pay almost $1 billion to consumers