The Washington Post reports…

In what regulators are calling the largest refund in U.S. history by an Internet provider to consumers, Charter Communications has agreed to give $62.5 million — and free subscriptions to HBO or Showtime — to New York customers who allegedly didn’t receive the Internet speeds they were promised, according to New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood.

The settlement puts an end to a months-long legal battle between the state of New York and the nation’s second-largest cable company, whose subsidiary Time Warner Cable was accused of providing slow routers and modems to customers that prevented them from accessing the download speeds they had signed up for.

As many as 700,000 New Yorkers will be receiving the direct refunds. Another 2.2 million will be eligible for the free premium and streaming channels, which are collectively valued at more than $100 million, Underwood’s office said in a release.

That is an interesting precedent.