Released: September 12, 2008

AT&T to repay fees charged to non-customers

Source: Michael Sorkin, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Deane Stokes Jr. never was an AT&T customer. Virginia Brennan hasn’t been a customer in at least eight years.

But starting in 2004, AT&T’s long distance service began charging each of them $3.95 a month for service they never asked for, or used.

In all, AT&T is accused of billing 660,000 households across the country who weren’t customers. That’s according to a class action lawsuit, with Stokes and Brennan as lead plaintiffs, just settled in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis.

While admitting no wrongdoing, AT&T agreed to pay at least $1.5 million to consumers who got the bills, and an additional $2.4 million to the lawyers who filed the suit.

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