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Industry: telecommunications
Penalty Total since 2000: $14,621,433,891
Number of Records: 1,255
Note: The totals include only those entries matched to a parent company. The industry designation is the primary one for the parent's operations overall. The totals are adjusted to account for the fact that each parent's entries may include both agency records and settlement announcements for the same case; or else a penalty covering multiple locations may be listed in the individual records for each of the facilities. They are also adjusted to reflect cases in which federal and state or local agencies cooperated and issued separate announcements of the outcome. Duplicate or overlapping penalty amounts are marked with an asterisk in the individual records list below.

Top 10 Current Parent Companies	Total Penalty $	Number of Records
ZTE	$2,592,360,064	4
Verizon Communications	$2,577,802,258	262
T-Mobile US	$1,728,257,835	96
Ericsson	$1,376,507,028	15
AT&T	$1,221,307,295	319
Mobile TeleSystems PJSC	$850,000,000	2
Telia Company AB	$731,603,972	2
DISH Network	$592,984,018	34
Lumen Technologies	$491,640,292	109
Frontier Communications	$420,241,072	32

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Company	Current Parent	Primary Offense Type	Year	Agency	Penalty Amount
MCI INTERNATIONAL, INC	Verizon Communications	benefit plan administrator violation	2006	EBSA	$50,001
WORLDCOM INTERNATIONAL DATA SERVICES, INC.	Verizon Communications	benefit plan administrator violation	2006	EBSA	$50,001
Verizon Communications, Inc.	Verizon Communications	employment discrimination	2006	EEOC	$48,900,000
Qwest Communications International Inc.	Lumen Technologies	employment discrimination	2006	EEOC	$400,000
Perot Systems Government Services	Nippon Telegraph & Telephone	wage and hour violation	2006	WHD	$61,631
Verizon Communications, Inc.	Verizon Communications	Family and Medical Leave Act	2006	WHD	$5,897
Comcast-Spectacor	Comcast	wage and hour violation	2006	WHD	$35,517
Cingular Wireless	AT&T	labor relations violation	2006	NLRB	$10,000
Verizon	Verizon Communications	labor relations violation	2006	NLRB	$5,760
Verizon Phone Company	Verizon Communications	labor relations violation	2006	NLRB	$53,000
Avaya, Inc.	Avaya Holdings	labor relations violation	2006	NLRB	$169,500
Verizon Communications, Inc.	Verizon Communications	labor relations violation	2006	NLRB	$6,078
Windstream New York, Inc.	Windstream	labor relations violation	2006	NLRB	$11,000
COMCAST CABLE	Comcast	labor relations violation	2006	NLRB	$22,500
AT&T/SBC	AT&T	labor relations violation	2006	NLRB	$30,000
Alltel	Verizon Communications	labor relations violation	2006	NLRB	$23,000
Cingular Wireless	AT&T	labor relations violation	2006	NLRB	$7,000
T-Mobile USA, Inc.	T-Mobile US	labor relations violation	2006	NLRB	$21,084
AT&T	AT&T	labor relations violation	2006	NLRB	$25,000
BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc.	AT&T	labor relations violation	2006	NLRB	$58,665
Verizon Communications	Verizon Communications	labor relations violation	2006	NLRB	$7,000
SBC Communications	AT&T	labor relations violation	2006	NLRB	$10,831
Sprint	T-Mobile US	employment discrimination	2006	private lawsuit-federal	$5,500,000
Bellsouth Corporation	AT&T	benefit plan administrator violation	2006	private lawsuit-federal	$93,675,000
Sprint Corporation	T-Mobile US	benefit plan administrator violation	2006	private lawsuit-federal	$25,000,000
Alltel	Verizon Communications	consumer protection violation	2006	WV-AG	$90,000
AT&T	AT&T	underground storage tank violation	2006	CA-AG	$25,000,000
Blockbuster Inc.	DISH Network	consumer protection violation	2006	NJ-AG	$140,000
Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, Inc.	Comcast	consumer protection violation	2006	MA-AG	$1,000,000
DIRECTV Inc.	AT&T	privacy violation	2006	MO-AG	$50,000
DirecTV, Inc.	AT&T	consumer protection violation	2006	WI-AG	$115,000
Frontier Telephone of Rochester, Inc.	Frontier Communications	consumer protection violation	2006	NY-AG	$80,000
Vonage Holdings Corp.	Ericsson	consumer protection violation	2006	NJ-AG	$45,945
Vonage Holdings Corporation	Ericsson	consumer protection violation	2006	MULTI-AG	$500,000
Sprint Nextel	T-Mobile US	consumer protection violation	2006	NY-NYCDCWP	$295,000
Avaya Communications, Inc.	Avaya Holdings	False Claims Act and related	2006	USAO	$255,000
AT&T	AT&T	air pollution violation	2006	CA-ARB	$161,750
BRIGHT HOUSE NETWORKS	Charter Communications	environmental violation	2006	FL-DEP	$20,700
Bellsouth Telecommunications	AT&T	air pollution violation	2006	GA-ENV	$15,000
MCI	Verizon Communications	consumer protection violation	2006	CA-PUC	$3,300,000
Qwest	Lumen Technologies	utility service violation	2006	CA-PUC	$180,000
Qwest Communications	Lumen Technologies	utility administrative violation	2006	MN-PUC	$360,000
VERIZON NORTHWEST INC	Verizon Communications	utility safety violation	2006	OR-PUC	$5,800
BELLSOUTH TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC	AT&T	consumer protection violation	2006	TN-PUC	$45,000
Qwest Corporation	Lumen Technologies	utility administrative violation	2006	WA-UTC	$7,800,000
PACIFIC BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY DBA AT&T	AT&T	workplace safety or health violation	2006	OSHA	$13,165
VERIZON	Verizon Communications	workplace safety or health violation	2006	OSHA	$10,000
COMCAST CABLE	Comcast	workplace safety or health violation	2006	OSHA	$8,000
ALLTEL COMMUNICATIONS	Verizon Communications	workplace safety or health violation	2006	OSHA	$6,250
Cellco Partnership dba Verizon Wireless	Verizon Communications	environmental violation	2006	EPA	$11,034
DIRECTV	AT&T	consumer protection violation	2005	FTC	$5,335,000
Perot Systems Corporation	Nippon Telegraph & Telephone	economic sanction violation	2005	OFAC	$21,776
The DirecTV Group and Hughes Network Systems Corporation, Inc.	AT&T	export control violation	2005	DDTC	$5,000,000
EchoStar Communications Corp.	DISH Network	employment discrimination	2005	EEOC	$8,000,000
Avaya, Inc.	Avaya Holdings	wage and hour violation	2005	WHD	$20,587
British Telecom Americas, Inc.	BT	Family and Medical Leave Act	2005	WHD	$28,000
Frontier Telephone of Rochester, Inc.	Frontier Communications	wage and hour violation	2005	WHD	$386,836
Motorola	Motorola Solutions	wage and hour violation	2005	WHD	$9,824
SBC Communications aka: Advanced Solutions Inc., et al.	AT&T	labor relations violation	2005	NLRB	$7,000
Verizon	Verizon Communications	labor relations violation	2005	NLRB	$5,000
SBC Communications	AT&T	labor relations violation	2005	NLRB	$7,500
Avaya, Inc.	Avaya Holdings	labor relations violation	2005	NLRB	$20,000
Alcatel USA	Nokia	labor relations violation	2005	NLRB	$18,000
Comcast Communications	Comcast	labor relations violation	2005	NLRB	$65,000
Comcast Cablevision of MD, Inc.	Comcast	labor relations violation	2005	NLRB	$50,000
Comcast Cablevision of MD, Inc.	Comcast	labor relations violation	2005	NLRB	$40,000
Comcast Communications	Comcast	labor relations violation	2005	NLRB	$35,000
Sprint Central Telephone Co. of Virginia, Inc.	Lumen Technologies	labor relations violation	2005	NLRB	$32,774
Comcast Communications	Comcast	labor relations violation	2005	NLRB	$5,000
COMCAST CABLE	Comcast	labor relations violation	2005	NLRB	$20,000
CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS CO.	Charter Communications	labor relations violation	2005	NLRB	$15,000
AT&T Corporation	AT&T	labor relations violation	2005	NLRB	$75,000
Comcast Cable Communications	Comcast	labor relations violation	2005	NLRB	$25,840
Cellco Partnership, d/b/a Verizon Wireless	Verizon Communications	labor relations violation	2005	NLRB	$23,500
Frontier, A Citizens Communication Company	Frontier Communications	labor relations violation	2005	NLRB	$20,000
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company	AT&T	labor relations violation	2005	NLRB	$18,000
AT&T	AT&T	employment discrimination	2005	private lawsuit-state	$950,000
AT&T Corporation	AT&T	benefit plan administrator violation	2005	private lawsuit-federal	$29,000,000
Worldcom, Inc.	Verizon Communications	benefit plan administrator violation	2005	private lawsuit-federal	$47,150,000
AT&T	AT&T	consumer protection violation	2005	MA-AG	$565,000
AT&T	AT&T	consumer protection violation	2005	MN-AG	$1,288,000
AT&T	AT&T	privacy violation	2005	MO-AG	$10,000
AT&T	AT&T	consumer protection violation	2005	MO-AG	$50,000
AT&T	AT&T	consumer protection violation	2005	PA-AG	$600,000
AT&T Corp.	AT&T	consumer protection violation	2005	FL-AG	$250,000
AT&T Corp.	AT&T	consumer protection violation	2005	TX-AG	$1,190,000
Blockbuster Inc.	DISH Network	consumer protection violation	2005	MULTI-AG	$630,000
Charter Communications	Charter Communications	privacy violation	2005	MO-AG	$75,000
DirecTV	AT&T	consumer protection violation	2005	MULTI-AG	$5,000,000
EchoStar Communications dba Dish Network	DISH Network	privacy violation	2005	MO-AG	$50,000
MCI	Verizon Communications	tax violations	2005	MULTI-AG	$315,000,000
MCI	Verizon Communications	tax violations	2005	MS-AG	$100,000,000
MCI Inc.	Verizon Communications	privacy violation	2005	MO-AG	$40,000
Southwestern Bell Telephone	AT&T	privacy violation	2005	MO-AG	$150,000
Sprint Communications	T-Mobile US	telecommunications violation	2005	MI-AG	$1,200,000
Time Warner Cable, Inc.	Charter Communications	consumer protection violation	2005	NY-AG	$350,500
Verizon Communications Inc.	Verizon Communications	telecommunications violation	2005	NY-AG	$75,000
T-Mobile USA Inc.	T-Mobile US	consumer protection violation	2005	NY-NYCDCWP	$135,000
T-Mobile USA, Inc.	T-Mobile US	employment discrimination	2005	EEOC	$100,000
Blockbuster, Inc.	DISH Network	employment discrimination	2005	EEOC	$50,000
DirecTV	AT&T	air pollution violation	2005	CA-SCAQMD	$10,000