AT&T Agrees to $105M Settlement in Cramming Case

AT&T's customers are all pond scum and sewer slime anyway. They probably deserved it for being such crappy customers and almost bankrupting AT&T with their unprofitable contracts. AT&T needed that money just to stay afloat and their customers should have been more than proud to have been defrauded by AT&T.

For years carriers have side stepped this profitable flaming pile of doggy doo that was left on the front porch and invoices of their subscribers.

All the while on the "take" getting highly profitable kick backs from the third party premium content providers for doing nothing more than allowing it to happen to their subscribers.

As well as blaming the end user subscriber for its existence.

"- well, only you or someone authorized by you to use this line could of subscribed to this and consented to the 3rd parties terms"

"- it's a three step opt in process, I seriously doubt it was unintentional or an accident as you are claiming Mr/Mrs Customer as you are claiming"

"- Mr/Mrs Customer, you gave your ANI/MDN to the web site requ...
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I'm guessing next up is Big Red and Yellow. Every carrier profited from the scam that is premium SMS, so if they are going to fine T-mo, they should fine everybody else too.

But then they should have to use the proceeds from their strong arm for something useful for the people, who paid the moneys that the carriers are giving them... I can think of several.