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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
COMCAST OF SOUTH FLORIDA II, INC.	Comcast	workplace safety or health violation	2009	OSHA	$6,000
CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS	Charter Communications	workplace safety or health violation	2009	OSHA	$5,000
DIRECTV HOME SERVICES INC	AT&T	workplace safety or health violation	2009	OSHA	$5,000
CABLEVISION OF CONNECTICUT	Altice USA Inc.	workplace safety or health violation	2009	OSHA	$12,900
DIRECT TV HOME SERVICES, INC.	AT&T	workplace safety or health violation	2009	OSHA	$9,000
NBC UNIVERSAL, INC.	Comcast	workplace safety or health violation	2009	OSHA	$6,750
Cellco Partnership dba Verizon Wireless	Verizon Communications	environmental violation	2009	EPA	$468,600
Perot Systems	Nippon Telegraph & Telephone	wage and hour violation	2008	WHD	$198,139
Cellco Partnership d/b/a	Verizon Communications	wage and hour violation	2008	WHD	$123,807
Avaya Incorporated	Avaya Holdings	wage and hour violation	2008	WHD	$17,508
SPECTRUM CABLE SERVICES, INC.	Charter Communications	wage and hour violation	2008	WHD	$84,085
AT&T, Inc.	AT&T	wage and hour violation	2008	WHD	$6,728
Comcast Cable Communications, LLC	Comcast	wage and hour violation	2008	WHD	$203,155
Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.	Comcast	Family and Medical Leave Act	2008	WHD	$12,000
Verizon Communications, Inc.	Verizon Communications	Family and Medical Leave Act	2008	WHD	$27,362
AT&T	AT&T	labor relations violation	2008	NLRB	$6,720
AT&T	AT&T	labor relations violation	2008	NLRB	$5,000
AT&T	AT&T	labor relations violation	2008	NLRB	$5,000
Qwest Communications	Lumen Technologies	labor relations violation	2008	NLRB	$100,000
AT&T Mobility	AT&T	labor relations violation	2008	NLRB	$5,000
Dish Network Services	DISH Network	labor relations violation	2008	NLRB	$41,000
Qwest Communications	Lumen Technologies	labor relations violation	2008	NLRB	$11,200
AT&T	AT&T	labor relations violation	2008	NLRB	$5,000
AT&T	AT&T	labor relations violation	2008	NLRB	$10,000
Verizon Teleproducts	Verizon Communications	labor relations violation	2008	NLRB	$20,000
Dish Network California Services, Inc.	DISH Network	labor relations violation	2008	NLRB	$22,016
AT&T	AT&T	labor relations violation	2008	NLRB	$10,000
Dish Network Service Corp	DISH Network	labor relations violation	2008	NLRB	$36,890
Verizon Communications	Verizon Communications	labor relations violation	2008	NLRB	$6,782
Verizon	Verizon Communications	wage and hour violation	2008	private lawsuit-state	$5,550,000
AT&T Services	AT&T	wage and hour violation	2008	private lawsuit-federal	$11,200,000
SBC Pension Benefit Plan-Nonbargained Program	AT&T	benefit plan administrator violation	2008	private lawsuit-federal	$16,000,000
AT&T	AT&T	consumer protection violation	2008	IL-AG	$7,000,000
Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC	Comcast	telecommunications violation	2008	FL-AG	$150,000
Sprint	T-Mobile US	consumer protection violation	2008	NY-AG	$375,000
Time Warner Cable	Charter Communications	consumer protection violation	2008	NY-AG	$375,000
Verizon Communications	Verizon Communications	consumer protection violation	2008	NY-AG	$375,000
Vonage Holdings Corp.	Ericsson	consumer protection violation	2008	CT-AG	$70,000
VERIZON CORPORATE SERVICES GROUP INC	Verizon Communications	air pollution violation	2008	NJ-ENV	$10,500
VERIZON NJ NEW BRUNSWICK CO #24220	Verizon Communications	air pollution violation	2008	NJ-ENV	$5,500
COMCAST OF OREGON I, INC	Comcast	environmental violation	2008	OR-ENV	$7,200
QWEST CORPORATION	Lumen Technologies	environmental violation	2008	OR-ENV	$8,184
Verizon North Inc.	Verizon Communications	utility service violation	2008	OH-PUC	$250,000
Sprint Spectrum, L.P.	T-Mobile US	consumer protection violation	2008	TN-PUC	$80,000
AT&T	AT&T	consumer protection violation	2008	WA-UTC	$300,000
AT & T Mobility, LLC	AT&T	wage and hour violation	2008	CA-LCO	$12,064
AT&T SERVICES, INC.	AT&T	workplace safety or health violation	2008	OSHA	$5,375
VERIZON PENNSYLVANIA, INC.	Verizon Communications	workplace safety or health violation	2008	OSHA	$5,000
Motorola Inc.	Motorola Solutions	environmental violation	2008	EPA	$500,000
WINDSTREAM CORPORATION	Windstream	environmental violation	2008	EPA	$11,333
ALLTEL Corporation	Verizon Communications	civil contempt	2007	DOJ_ANTITRUST	$1,325,000
Lucent Technologies Inc.	Nokia	Foreign Corrupt Practices Act	2007	DOJ_CRIMINAL	$1,000,000
Lucent Technologies Inc.	Nokia	Foreign Corrupt Practices Act	2007	SEC	$1,500,000
Motorola Inc.	Motorola Solutions	accounting fraud or deficiencies	2007	SEC	$25,000,000
AT&T	AT&T	employment discrimination	2007	EEOC	$756,000
Sprint Nextel	T-Mobile US	telecommunications violation	2007	FCC	$1,325,000
United States Cellular Corp.	Telephone & Data Systems Inc.	telecommunications violation	2007	FCC	$500,000
Qwest Communications Corporation	Lumen Technologies	wage and hour violation	2007	WHD	$18,000
Embarq Holdings Company LLC	Lumen Technologies	wage and hour violation	2007	WHD	$202,314
CSG Systems, Inc	CSG Systems International	wage and hour violation	2007	WHD	$13,533
Alcatel-Lucent	Nokia	wage and hour violation	2007	WHD	$67,418
Verizon Florida, Inc.	Verizon Communications	wage and hour violation	2007	WHD	$71,941
Comcast-Spectacor	Comcast	wage and hour violation	2007	WHD	$6,276
Sprint/United Management Company	T-Mobile US	wage and hour violation	2007	WHD	$482,289
CSG Systems, Inc.	CSG Systems International	wage and hour violation	2007	WHD	$46,925
180 Connect Inc	AT&T	wage and hour violation	2007	WHD	$96,475
Time Warner Cable	Charter Communications	Family and Medical Leave Act	2007	WHD	$46,157
Comcast-Spectacor	Comcast	wage and hour violation	2007	WHD	$6,761
Cingular Wireless, LLC	AT&T	wage and hour violation	2007	WHD	$4,711,767
Cingular Wireless, LLC.	AT&T	wage and hour violation	2007	WHD	$396,782
Frontier Telephone of Rochester, Inc.	Frontier Communications	labor relations violation	2007	NLRB	$42,189
Verizon	Verizon Communications	labor relations violation	2007	NLRB	$12,000
Verizon-New York, Inc.	Verizon Communications	labor relations violation	2007	NLRB	$60,000
BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc.	AT&T	labor relations violation	2007	NLRB	$28,477
Bell South	AT&T	labor relations violation	2007	NLRB	$60,825
Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.	Comcast	labor relations violation	2007	NLRB	$16,000
AT&T	AT&T	labor relations violation	2007	NLRB	$20,887
BellSouth Telecommunications	AT&T	labor relations violation	2007	NLRB	$10,000
BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc.	AT&T	labor relations violation	2007	NLRB	$82,000
Alltel Communications Inc.	Verizon Communications	employment discrimination	2007	OFCCP	$275,000
Sprint	T-Mobile US	employment discrimination	2007	private lawsuit-federal	$57,000,000
Avaya Inc.	Avaya Holdings	employment discrimination	2007	private lawsuit-state	$4,555,459
Qwest Communications	Lumen Technologies	benefit plan administrator violation	2007	private lawsuit-federal	$33,000,000
AT&T Mobility	AT&T	consumer protection violation	2007	CA-AG	$500,000
Charter Communications, Inc.	Charter Communications	consumer protection violation	2007	OR-AG	$73,460
Cingular Wireless LLC	AT&T	consumer protection violation	2007	NY-AG	$35,000
Qwest	Lumen Technologies	accounting fraud or deficiencies	2007	AK-AG	$19,000,000
TracFone Wireless Inc.	Verizon Communications	privacy violation	2007	MO-AG	$50,000
Verizon Wireless	Verizon Communications	consumer protection violation	2007	NY-AG	$1,150,000
Verizon Business	Verizon Communications	accounting fraud or deficiencies	2007	OK-AG	$11,700,000
VERIZON NORTHWEST INC	Verizon Communications	utility safety violation	2007	OR-PUC	$12,500
COMCAST OF OREGON I INC	Comcast	utility safety violation	2007	OR-PUC	$18,000
Verizon New York, Inc.	Verizon Communications	employment discrimination	2007	NY-DHR	$24,356
AT&T	AT&T	workplace safety or health violation	2007	OSHA	$22,500
AT&T NETWORK SERVICES	AT&T	workplace safety or health violation	2007	OSHA	$13,440
TIME WARNER CABLE	Charter Communications	workplace safety or health violation	2007	OSHA	$5,000
DISH NETWORK	DISH Network	workplace safety or health violation	2007	OSHA	$5,000
ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY DBA AT&T ILLINOIS	AT&T	workplace safety or health violation	2007	OSHA	$7,500
BRIGHT HOUSE NETWORKS, INC.	Charter Communications	workplace safety or health violation	2007	OSHA	$10,000
AT&T Communications- East, Inc.	AT&T	False Claims Act and related	2006	DOJ_CIVIL	$2,900,000
MCI INTERNATIONAL, INC	Verizon Communications	benefit plan administrator violation	2006	EBSA	$50,001