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Violation Tracker Industry Summary Page

Industry: telecommunications
Penalty Total since 2000: $14,631,658,026
Number of Records: 1,258
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 CompaniesTotal Penalty $Number of Records
ZTE$2,592,360,0644
Verizon Communications$2,581,891,912263
T-Mobile US$1,732,347,48997
Ericsson$1,376,507,02815
AT&T$1,223,352,122320
Mobile TeleSystems PJSC$850,000,0002
Telia Company AB$731,603,9722
DISH Network$592,984,01834
Lumen Technologies$491,640,292109
Frontier Communications$420,241,07232

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CompanyCurrent Parent sort iconPrimary Offense TypeYearAgencyPenalty Amount
VERIZON INCVerizon Communicationsworkplace safety or health violation2001OSHA$5,000
VERIZONVerizon Communicationsworkplace safety or health violation2002OSHA$25,000
VERIZON OF NEW JERSEY INC.Verizon Communicationsworkplace safety or health violation2002OSHA$5,300
VERIZON PA INC.Verizon Communicationsworkplace safety or health violation2003OSHA$14,000
VERIZONVerizon Communicationsworkplace safety or health violation2006OSHA$10,000
ALLTEL COMMUNICATIONSVerizon Communicationsworkplace safety or health violation2006OSHA$6,250
VERIZON PENNSYLVANIA, INC.Verizon Communicationsworkplace safety or health violation2008OSHA$5,000
VERIZONVerizon Communicationsworkplace safety or health violation2009OSHA$5,000
VERIZONVerizon Communicationsworkplace safety or health violation2010OSHA$5,000
VERIZONVerizon Communicationsworkplace safety or health violation2011OSHA$7,000
VERIZON NY INC.Verizon Communicationsworkplace safety or health violation2011OSHA(*)Penalty amounts marked by an asterisk are ones announced by more than one agency. Parent penalty totals are adjusted to avoid double-counting. $147,000
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, INCVerizon Communicationsworkplace safety or health violation2013OSHA$5,100
VERIZON NEW YORK INC.Verizon Communicationsworkplace safety or health violation2013OSHA$7,000
VERIZON NEW YORK INC.Verizon Communicationsworkplace safety or health violation2014OSHA$5,000
VERIZONVerizon Communicationsworkplace safety or health violation2015OSHA$7,000
VERIZON CALIFORNIA INC.Verizon Communicationsworkplace safety or health violation2015OSHA$7,000
VERIZONVerizon Communicationsworkplace safety or health violation2015OSHA$7,000
MCIVerizon Communicationsworkplace safety or health violation2016OSHA$6,000
VERIZON NEW ENGLAND, INC.Verizon Communicationsworkplace safety or health violation2016OSHA$5,000
VERIZONVerizon Communicationsworkplace safety or health violation2018OSHA$5,000
VERIZON NEW YORK, INC.Verizon Communicationsworkplace safety or health violation2019OSHA$28,416
VERIZON VIRGINIA LLCVerizon Communicationsworkplace safety or health violation2020OSHA$8,365
VERIZON NEW YORK INC.Verizon Communicationsworkplace safety or health violation2022OSHA$14,502
MCI WORLDCOM, INC.Verizon Communicationswater pollution violation2000EPA$625,000
BELL ATLANTIC COMPANIESVerizon Communicationswater pollution violation2000EPA$16,069
WESTERN WIRELESS CORPVerizon Communicationswater pollution violation2000EPA$10,734
ALLTEL CORPORATIONVerizon Communicationsair pollution violation2003EPA(*)Penalty amounts marked by an asterisk are ones announced by more than one agency. Parent penalty totals are adjusted to avoid double-counting. $1,058,000
WORLDCOM, INC.Verizon Communicationswater pollution violation2001EPA$143,520
CELLCO PARTNERSHIPVerizon Communicationsenvironmental violation2001EPA$7,589
Cellco Partnership dba Verizon WirelessVerizon Communicationsenvironmental violation2006EPA$11,034
Cellco Partnership dba Verizon WirelessVerizon Communicationsenvironmental violation2009EPA$468,600
Verizon Wireless and Tracfone WirelessVerizon Communicationsconsumer protection violation2024MULTI-AG$4,089,654
TrellisWare Technologies, Inc.ViaSat Inc.False Claims Act and related2018USAO$12,177,631
Windstream CorporationWindstreamtelecommunications violation2014FCC$2,500,000
WINDSTREAM COMMUNICATIONS, INC.Windstreamlabor relations violation2014NLRB$21,062
Windstream Corporation and its subsidiary, Windstream Pennsylvania, LLCWindstreamlabor relations violation2009NLRB$7,003
Windstream New York, Inc.Windstreamlabor relations violation2006NLRB$11,000
Windstream Services II, LLCWindstreamtelecommunications violation2020FCC$18,000
WindstreamWindstreamutility service violation2016TX-PUC$225,000
Windstream CommunicationsWindstreamtelecommunications violation2022FCC$1,200,000
WINDSTREAM INC.Windstreamworkplace safety or health violation2011OSHA$9,000
WINDSTREAM, INC.Windstreamworkplace safety or health violation2011OSHA$6,000
PAETEC COMMUNICATIONS, INC.Windstreamworkplace safety or health violation2011OSHA$14,100
WINDSTREAM COMMUNICATIONS, INCWindstreamworkplace safety or health violation2018OSHA$5,000
WINDSTREAM COMMUNICATIONS, LLCWindstreamworkplace safety or health violation2020OSHA$18,000
WINDSTREAM CORPORATIONWindstreamenvironmental violation2008EPA$11,333
Zayo Group. LLCZayo Groupenvironmental violation2017VA-ENV$5,765
ZAYO GROUPZayo Groupworkplace safety or health violation2017OSHA$6,750
Zhongxing Telecommunications Equipment Corporation and ZTE Kangxun Telecommunications Ltd.ZTEexport control violation2017BIS$661,000,000
ZTE CorporationZTEexport control violation2017DOJ_NATSEC$430,488,798
Zhongxing Telecommunications Equipment Corporation (ZTE)ZTEexport control violation2017OFAC$100,871,266
Zhongxing Telecommunications Equipment Corporation and ZTE Kangxun Telecommunications Ltd.ZTEexport control violation2018BIS$1,400,000,000
Purple Communications and CSDVRSZVRStelecommunications violation2017FCC$9,116,527
Purple CommunicationsZVRStelecommunications violation2015FCC$11,900,000
Purple Communications, IncZVRStelecommunications violation2010FCC$22,000,000
Purple Communications, Inc.ZVRSlabor relations violation2017NLRB$53,334
Purple Communications, Inc.ZVRSlabor relations violation2015NLRB$18,703
PURPLE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.ZVRSbenefit plan administrator violation2022EBSA$10,001
(*): Penalty amounts marked by an asterisk are ones announced by more than one agency. Parent penalty totals are adjusted to avoid double-counting.