In re Text Messaging Antitrust Litigation, No. 08-C-782 (N.D. Ill.)

Faruqi & Faruqi represents a proposed class of direct purchasers who paid a fee per text message, and who allege that Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile conspired among themselves and with others to fix the price of these fees.  Plaintiffs allege a conspiracy in violation of § 1 of the Sherman Act and that, as a result of this conspiracy, text message users paid more than they would have had the carriers been in competition with each other.