Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint have been fined a collective $200 million for sharing customers' location data without their consent.

The outage was similar to one that Verizon had experienced just two months earlier. The FCC says Verizon violated FCC rules by failing to deliver 911 calls during the December 2022 outage.

Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T are all reportedly in legal hot water as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allegedly found the major carriers sharing user location data to "aggregators ...

The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today announced [PDF] that it has fined AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint/T-Mobile $196 million collectively for illegally selling access to ...

Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint fined nearly $200 million for illegally sharing our location data. By Jacob Siegal. Published Apr 29th, 2024 6:35PM EDT. Image: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) fined Cruise, GM’s self-driving vehicle division, $1.5 million. The penalty was imposed for omitting key details from an October 2023 ...

The FCC fined AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile over the mishandling of customers' location-based data. The companies plan of fighting it. Credit: Getty Images The U.S.'s major wireless carriers are ...

Verizon has violated a state rule on its handling of service calls from customers, the State Corporation Commission ruled yesterday. Even so, it won't have to pay a penalty. The staff of the SCC ...

Verizon fully restored a network disruption that impacted thousands of customers in the U.S. on Monday, the company announced, hours after the Federal Communications Commission said it would ...

If customer service is a priority, “Verizon should now live up to this commitment,” Storch said. Stories by Karin Price Mueller They won a $4K lawsuit against $11B company a year ago.