Company will reimburse $1 million to customers for terminating their service for "excessive" use of plans marketed as "unlimited."
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I guess it's hard to find people who understand what constitutes fraud these days. Unlimited means what to our Attorney General? Hell, I've done all the leg work for him and posted on the blog for everyone else. Makes you wonder what's really going on with him.
Oh well.. I'll be in the meeting tomorrow pushing for Utopia fiber to the home here. It's time we did something about our crappy Internet. It's either important or not.
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