Major wireless carriers all slapped with text-messaging class-action lawsuit
Text messaging rates have always been a little ridiculous, but a new class-action suit filed in Mississippi alleges that virtually every wireless carrier you can think of is basically cheating you by charging you for received texts and not allowing you to turn the service off. The suit names AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, Alltel, US Cellular, Cellular South, and Virgin Mobile (surprisingly, T-Mobile didn’t make the cut), and says that members of the class are entitled to relief for the unauthorized charges, wrongful collection, and unjust enrichment. Of course, this will all likely end in a useless settlement that nets subscribers like three extra text messages and a 20 percent discount on an “approved accessory,” while the plaintiff’s law firm banks millions, but we’ll see how things go.
Tags: alltel, att, cellular south, CellularSouth, lawsuit, legal, sprint, sprint nextel, SprintNextel, text messaging, texting, TextMessaging, us cellular, UsCellular, verizon, virgin mobile, VirginMobile
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