7 smartphone rules changed this week<article>
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<p>Federal regulators have been throwing their weight around lately, and mostly to good effect for consumers and users of mobile technology. The net effect of their recent activism adds up to a whole new set of rules and protections for all of us. Here are the ramifications of seven new rules.</p><h2>Carriers can’t throttle ‘unlimited’ data plans</h2>
<p>The Federal Trade Commission ordered prepaid mobile provider
TracFone to pay a fine of $40 million. The transgression? It throttled (meaning it deliberately slowed down) the data connectivity of customers who had been sold “unlimited” data plans.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2878681/7-smartphone-rules-changed-this-week.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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7 smartphone rules changed this week
