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AT&T settles lawsuit over cellphone fees

Tue Jun 3, 2008 5:31am EDT

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June 3 (Reuters) - AT&T Inc (T.N) 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.

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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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