{"id":71236,"date":"2015-12-24T08:35:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T13:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=71236"},"modified":"2015-12-24T08:35:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T13:35:38","slug":"deadline-set-for-verizonsprint-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/12\/24\/deadline-set-for-verizonsprint-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon\/Sprint settlement deadline set"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ohio Attorney General\u2019s information<\/i><\/p>\n

COLUMBUS — Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine reminds Verizon and Sprint customers that they have until December 31 to seek a share of the $120 million allocated for consumers under national \u201cmobile cramming\u201d settlements announced earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Verizon or Sprint customers who experienced unauthorized third-party charges on their cell phone bills dating back to July 2010 may be eligible for refunds under the settlements.<\/p>\n

\"Verizon<\/a>\u201cIf your Verizon or Sprint cell phone bill was higher than expected in the last few years, you may be entitled to a refund,\u201d Attorney General DeWine said. \u201cHundreds of thousands of Ohioans were estimated to qualify under these settlements, and we\u2019re encouraging eligible consumers to submit a claim by the Dec. 31 deadline.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Sprint<\/a>Verizon customers can submit their claims at www.CFPBSettlementVerizon.com<\/a>.\u00a0Sprint customers can submit their claims at www.SprintRefundPSMS.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Verizon and Sprint settlements, announced in May, were the latest in a nationwide effort by the attorneys general of all 50 states and the District of Columbia, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Federal Communications Commission, and the Federal Trade Commission to curb the practice of mobile cramming. Similar settlements were reached with AT&T in October 2014 and T-Mobile in December 2014.<\/p>\n

All four carriers announced that they would stop billing customers for commercial premium text message subscription services (the largest source of mobile cramming) in the fall of 2013 after the states began investigating.<\/p>\n

Consumers who experienced \u201ccramming\u201d usually were charged small one-time fees or monthly subscription fees of $9.99 per month for premium text message subscription services involving ringtones, horoscopes, trivia, or sports scores that they did not request. Frequently, the charges occurred after consumers entered their mobile phone numbers online.<\/p>\n

Consumers who have questions about Verizon claims should visit www.CFPBSettlementVerizon.com<\/a> or call the claims administrator at 888.726.7063. Consumers who have questions about Sprint claims should visit www.SprintRefundPSMS.com<\/a> or call the claims administrator at 877.389.8787.<\/p>\n

Copies of the Verizon\u00a0<\/a>and Sprint<\/a>\u00a0settlements, which were first announced in May, are available on the Ohio Attorney General\u2019s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ohio Attorney General\u2019s information COLUMBUS — Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine reminds Verizon and Sprint customers that they have until December 31 to seek a share of the $120 million allocated for consumers under national \u201cmobile cramming\u201d settlements announced earlier this year. Verizon or Sprint customers who experienced unauthorized third-party charges on their cell phone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-31 21:30:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}