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t-mobile is in hot water with the Federal Trade Commission I'm Dan Graziano filling in for Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update the FTC has filed a complaint against t-mobile that claims the carrier placed hidden charges in phone bills for premium messaging services the agency alleges that t-mobile made hundreds of millions of dollars on fees relating to these charges it claims that t-mobile's billing practices made it difficult for customers to detect that anything was wrong because they didn't show that these charges were from a third party or part of a subscription the agency has also said that the carrier has failed issue full refunds to some customers but t-mobile CEO John ledger has called the complaint unfounded and without merit he said the carrier stop billing for these charges last year and is already processing refunds the FTC however wants to ensure that every customer gets their refund in other t-mobile news that carrier will be offering the Nokia Lumia 635 smartphone to customers later this month the handset features a 4.5 inch display a 1.2 gigahertz quad-core processor and a 5 megapixel rear camera the Lumia 635 is the first smartphone in the u.s. to run Windows Phone 8.1 which includes a lot of new features and improvements including Microsoft's answer Siri the Cortana voice assistant the device also runs on t-mobile's LTE network and is the carrier variant of the global release Lumia 630 which Cena editors rate is a good gettin it three out of five stars the main selling point though is the price the Lumia 635 will cost you only 168 dollars and you won't even have to sign up for a two-year contract now that's what I call a good deal the Lumia 635 will be available online from t-mobile on July ninth and in stores on July sixteenth while metro pcs will begin selling it on July eighteenth online and in stores and finally Songza an online radio provider similar to pandora announced that is being acquired by google the service recommends various playlists based on the time of day the weather your moo food or an activity songs is Google's 20th acquisition this year joining the ranks of companies like nest and drop cam it's an interesting time for Google to buy a music streaming company remember that apple recently purchased beats and amazon also launched its new prime music service google has said that there are no immediate plans to change Songza although the company is exploring ways to integrate the service into google play music and possibly youtube that's your tech news update you can get more details on these stories at cnet com from our studios in New York i'm dan graziano