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Article: Unwanted cell text messages silenced: Settlement to benefit mobile phone users.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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Byline: Jon Van
Feb. 1--About a year ago, Joe Shields got an unwanted text message on his cell phone promoting an astrology Web site, and Wednesday Shields learned he'll get up to $150 for his trouble. Shields was among several cell phone customers participating in a class-action lawsuit intended to strangle mobile phone spam before it can spread as it has on the Internet. In a settlement approved Wednesday in a Chicago federal court, Distributive Networks LLC of Washington, D.C., agreed to pay cell phone customers who received unwanted text messages promoting its Web sites. While earlier lawsuits filed by cell phone carriers and state attorneys general ...