Overcharging suit against Cingular goes forward
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InfoWorld - Washington State&#39;s highest court on Thursday let a class-action lawsuit alleging overcharging by Cingular Wireless go forward.
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A federal judge has given preliminary approval for Sprint Nextel Corp. to pay $30 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging it overcharged in passing along a federally mandated phone service subsidy.
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Cingular Wireless, a venture of AT&T  Inc.  and BellSouth Corp. , said on Monday it would  start charging customers with older phones an extra $4.99  monthly fee as early as September unless they upgrade their  phones as it moves toward using a single network technology.
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TORONTO,  - A Canadian oil-field worker, stunned  to get a C$85,000 ($83,700) cell phone bill, has had the  charges reduced to C$3,400, but is still fighting them.
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Aruba Networks&#160;countersued two divisions of Motorola&#160;Wednesday, adding a new twist to a wireless LAN (local area network) patent-infringement case that affects some of the biggest vendors in the business.Symbol Technologies and Wireless Valley Communications, both of which are now&#160;owned by&#160;Motorola, sued Aruba&#160;in August. They claimed Aruba knowingly used technology covered by several patents they own, and are seeking an injunction and damages.But in its response to their complaint, filed Wednesday, Aruba claimed Symbol knew enough about Aruba&#39;s products in 2003 to say they might be infringing Symbol&#39;s pending patents. Aruba also argues both Symbol and Wireless Valley withheld information they were required to give to patent examiners. As a result, the patents are invalid and Symbol and Wireless Valley&#39;s complaints should be dismissed, the company said.Aruba also countersued, seeking declaratory judgments that it didn&#39;t infringe and that the patents are invalid and unenforceable. Aruba wants Symbol and Wireless Valley to pay the costs of the suit and its attorney fees.In 2003, when Symbol was an independent company, it came close to buying Aruba, according to the filing. Throughout the first half of that year, as the companies discussed the proposed deal, Symbol had &quot;essentially unfettered access&quot; to information about how Aruba&#39;s products were designed and made, Aruba said. Among the engineers inspecting its technology was the inventor on two of the patents involved in the suit, they said. The talks eventually broke off because the companies couldn&#39;t agree on terms, the filing said.Aruba argued that Symbol never warned it might sue over the patents, leading Aruba to infer that it didn&#39;t intend to enforce any patent rights. The company waited for four years after that inspection and then sued without warning on the eve of an Aruba quarterly earnings announcement, Aruba said. In addition, both Symbol and Wireless Valley knew about Aruba&#39;s business for years and should have known about the activities it sued over, yet only sued after Aruba had invested tens of millions of dollars in designing and testing its products, the company said.&#160;
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Vonage is set this week to appear in court to face charges that it has infringed upon patents owned by telecommunications giant Verizon.
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Comcast yesterday filed suit against the National Football League, claiming it was acting in breach of contract for encouraging Comcast subscribers to drop their service.
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ATLANTA -- Best Buy Co. , the biggest U S consumer-electronics retailer, overcharged customers by luring them to in-store computer screens that showed higher prices than its website, Connecticut's attorney general said in a lawsuit.
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Cingular Wireless Corp. promised to provide uninterrupted service to AT&amp;amp;T Wireless customers when it acquired that company in 2004, but instead it nickel-and-dimed them and degraded their reception in an effort to persuade them to sign new contracts, a federal lawsuit said Thursday.
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TechWeb - A class action suit claims that drivers were illegally arrested and ticketed for using their cell phones while driving.
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Wireless technology company  Freedom Wireless Inc. said on Friday it sued five wireless  carriers and services providers -- including Cingular Wireless  and Ericsson -- over patent infringement charges.
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For the last several weeks, iPhone users have been by turns amused or enraged over the sheer heft of the bills they are receiving from AT&T.
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When Adam Yuzuk had a question about his cellphone bill, a Cingular Wireless agent told him to check his online account.
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The California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday upheld a &#36;12.1 million fine against Cingular Wireless, related to a two-year investigation into the cellular telephone company's business practices.
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Battered and bruised from its patent fights with Sprint and Verizon over technologies used in its VoIP service, Vonage disclosed Friday that it has also been sued by AT&T.
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Cingular Wireless is under attack from its biggest rival, Verizon Wireless, which is trying to recapture the top spot in the cellphone industry.
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Top U.S .phone company AT&T Inc  said on Monday that it was ordered to pay $156 million after losing a jury verdict in a patent infringement case brought by TGIP Inc.