FCC forces T-Mobile to pay $200 million fine for subsidiary Sprint’s...
T-Mobile has agreed to pay a $200 million fine to resolve an investigation into subsidiary Sprint, which was caught taking millions of dollars in government subsidies for "serving" 885,000 low-income Americans who weren't using Sprint service. Sprint admitted the violations in September 2019, about six months before T-Mobile completed its purchase of Sprint. Today, the…
Sprint offers up unlimited data in coronavirus response
Graphic by Pixabay/Illustration by CNET For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website. Sprint will be joining AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon in offering unlimited data for 60 days starting next week. The arrangement will kick in by March 19, Sprint said late Friday, adding that the company will…
FCC issues wrist-slap fines to carriers that sold your phone-location data
Getty Images | Nakhorn Yuangkratoke/EyeEm The big four mobile carriers face fines of between $12 million and $91 million each for selling their customers' real-time location data to third-party data brokers without customer consent, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai's office announced today. These are "proposed" fines, meaning the carriers can dispute them and try…
Ajit Pai: Carrier sales of phone-location data is illegal, FCC plans...
Getty Images | Nakhorn Yuangkratoke/EyeEm Mobile network operators who sold their customers' real-time location data violated US law and the Federal Communications Commission will try to punish carriers that did so, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai wrote today. "[T]he FCC's Enforcement Bureau has completed its extensive investigation and... it has concluded that one or more wireless…
T-Mobile/Sprint deal is good actually, Feds tell court in states’ lawsuit
Enlarge / T-Mobile CEO John Legere (left) and then-Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure during an interview on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on April 30, 2018. Federal regulators that want to let T-Mobile complete its acquisition of rival wireless carrier Sprint are pushing back on a collective effort by some states to block…
Why 168,149 Valentine’s day text showed up in November
Aurich Lawson / Getty Did you get a Valentine's Day text message on November 7? If so, you can blame a company called Syniverse, which provides text-messaging services to major mobile carriers. Syniverse helps deliver text messages via its intercarrier messaging service and boasts that it is "Connected to more than 300 operators" and processes 600…
T-Mobile and Sprint get FCC approval to combine in 3-2 party-line...
Enlarge / Federal Communication Commission Republican members (L-R) Brendan Carr, Michael O'Rielly, and Chairman Ajit Pai participate in a discussion during the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 23, 2018 in National Harbor, Maryland. The Federal Communications Commission has voted 3-2 to approve T-Mobile's acquisition of Sprint, an FCC spokesperson confirmed to Ars today. Republican…
It’s authorities: United States federal government authorizes T-Mobile/Sprint merger
Getty Images | alexsl The Justice Department today announced its approval of the T-Mobile/Sprint merger as part of a settlement that requires the merging companies to spin off several assets to Dish Network. The DOJ decided against filing a lawsuit to block the T-Mobile US purchase of Sprint, even though it reduces the number of…
DOJ to authorize T-Mobile/Sprint merger in spite of 13 mentions attempting...
The Justice Department plans to approve the T-Mobile/Sprint merger as part of a settlement involving the sale of spectrum licenses, wholesale access, and a prepaid wireless business to Dish Network, The Wall Street Journal reported today. "The companies have spent weeks negotiating with antitrust enforcers and each other over the sale of assets to Dish…
T-Mobile opponent Meal might assist in saving the T-Mobile/Sprint merger
Enlarge / A field service specialist for Dish Network prepares to install a satellite TV system at a residence in Denver, Colorado, on Aug. 6, 2013. Getty Images | Bloomberg T-Mobile US and Sprint are reportedly near a deal to sell spectrum, wholesale network access, and Sprint's Boost Mobile subsidiary to Dish as part of…