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TracFone has agreed to pay $40 million “to settle charges that it deceived millions of consumers with hollow promises of ‘unlimited’ data service,” the Federal Trade Commission announced today.

The Federal Trade Commission building in Washington, D.C., is seen Jan. 28, 2015. The nation's largest prepaid mobile provider, TracFone Wireless, will pay $40 million to settle government claims that ...

Tracfone, a Verizon prepaid brand, has revised its plans to add more value. Plans that previously included 2–10 GB of data now include twice as much, up to 20 GB, for the same price. Tracfone is ...

Tracfone has added a new service plan to its offerings: Tracfone Freedom. This is Tracfone's first plan to include unlimited data (a standard offering from most other carriers). Tracfone's existing ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Tracfone Wireless falsely advertises "unlimited" data plans, but it does have limits, and it terminates the prepaid service and then claims that it does, but does not, track ...

If you had an unlimited plan from a TracFone provider before January 2015, you can file a claim for a refund. I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer electronics, overseeing an experienced team of ...

TracFone, the largest prepaid mobile provider in the U.S. with about 25 million subscribers, has agreed to pay $40 million to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to settle charges that it "deceived" ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TracFone's data breach settlement is still open for claims through the start of August. This deep into the age of smartphones, I'd ...

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Prepaid mobile provider TracFone has agreed to settle a charge of deceiving millions of customers by paying the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) $40 million, which will go to refunds to its throttled ...

Verizon Communications has agreed to pay a $16,000,000 settlement with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the U.S. concerning three data breach incidents at its wholly-owned subsidiary, ...