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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 CompaniesTotal Penalty $Number of Records
ZTE$2,592,360,0644
Verizon Communications$2,577,802,258262
T-Mobile US$1,728,257,83596
Ericsson$1,376,507,02815
AT&T$1,221,307,295319
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 ParentPrimary Offense TypeYearAgencyPenalty Amount sort icon
AT&TAT&Tenvironmental violation2014CA-AG$51,800,000
SprintT-Mobile USemployment discrimination2007private lawsuit-federal$57,000,000
AT&T Inc.AT&Ttelecommunications violation2020FCC$57,265,625
AT&T Mobility, LLCAT&Tconsumer protection violation2019FTC$60,000,000
Frontier CommunicationsFrontier Communicationsconsumer protection violation2022CT-AG$60,000,000
Dish NetworkDISH Networkprivacy violation2017private lawsuit-federal$61,000,000
Magyar Telekom PLC and Deutsche Telekom AGDeutsche TelekomForeign Corrupt Practices Act2011DOJ_CRIMINAL$63,900,000
Verizon WirelessVerizon Communicationsconsumer protection violation2015private lawsuit-federal$64,200,000
Sprint Corp.T-Mobile UStelecommunications violation2015FCC$68,000,000
Lucent TechnologiesNokiabenefit plan administrator violation2004private lawsuit-federal$69,000,000
Frontier CommunicationsFrontier Communicationsconsumer protection violation2022CA-MULTI(*)Penalty amounts marked by an asterisk are ones announced by more than one agency. Parent penalty totals are adjusted to avoid double-counting. $69,000,000
Frontier CommunicationsFrontier Communicationsconsumer protection violation2022FTC$69,000,000
VerizonVerizon Communicationsconsumer protection violation2015CFPB$70,000,000
AlticeAltice USA Inc.utility service violation2021NY-PSC$71,940,000
Verizon WirelessVerizon Communicationstelecommunications violation2010FCC$77,800,000
AT&T Mobility LLCAT&Tconsumer protection violation2014FTC$80,000,000
WorldCom Inc.Verizon Communicationsconsumer protection violation2001private lawsuit-federal$88,000,000
T-MobileT-Mobile USconsumer protection violation2014FTC$90,000,000
Verizon WirelessVerizon Communicationstelecommunications violation2015FCC$90,000,000
T-Mobile USA Inc.T-Mobile UStelecommunications violation2014FCC$90,000,000
T-Mobile USA Inc.T-Mobile UStelecommunications violation2020FCC$91,630,000
Alcatel-Lucent S.A.NokiaForeign Corrupt Practices Act2010DOJ_CRIMINAL$92,000,000
Verizon Communications Inc.Verizon CommunicationsFalse Claims Act and related2011DOJ_CIVIL$93,525,410
Bellsouth CorporationAT&Tbenefit plan administrator violation2006private lawsuit-federal$93,675,000
AT&T Mobility LLCAT&Ttelecommunications violation2015FCC$100,000,000
Mobile TeleSystems PJSCMobile TeleSystems PJSCForeign Corrupt Practices Act2019SEC$100,000,000
MCIVerizon Communicationstax violations2005MS-AG$100,000,000
VonageEricssonconsumer protection violation2022FTC$100,000,000
Zhongxing Telecommunications Equipment Corporation (ZTE)ZTEexport control violation2017OFAC$100,871,266
AT&T MobilityAT&Ttelecommunications violation2014FCC$105,000,000
Dish NetworkDISH Networkprivacy violation2020DOJ_CIVIL$126,000,000
Lucent Technologies, Inc. and Avaya, Inc.Nokialabor relations violation2001NLRB$130,000,000
Frontier CommunicationsFrontier Communicationstelecommunications violation2015WV-AG$160,000,000
VimpelCom Ltd.VEONForeign Corrupt Practices Act2016SEC$167,500,000
Charter Communications, Inc.Charter Communicationsconsumer protection violation2018NY-AG$174,200,000
Cablevision Systems CorporationAltice USA Inc.price-fixing or anti-competitive practices2016private lawsuit-federal$179,000,000
T-MobileT-Mobile UStelecommunications violation2020FCC$200,000,000
LM EricssonEricssonForeign Corrupt Practices Act2023DOJ_CRIMINAL$206,000,000
Dish NetworkDISH Networkprivacy violation2020MULTI-AG(*)Penalty amounts marked by an asterisk are ones announced by more than one agency. Parent penalty totals are adjusted to avoid double-counting. $210,000,000
VimpelCom LimitedVEONForeign Corrupt Practices Act2016DOJ_CRIMINAL$230,000,000
Qwest Communications International Inc.Lumen Technologiesaccounting fraud or deficiencies2004SEC$250,000,000
Telia Company ABTelia Company ABForeign Corrupt Practices Act2017DOJ_CRIMINAL$274,603,972
Dish NetworkDISH Networkconsumer protection violation2017FTC$280,000,000
MCIVerizon Communicationstax violations2005MULTI-AG$315,000,000
SprintT-Mobile UStax violations2018NY-AG$330,000,000
T-MobileT-Mobile USprivacy violation2023private lawsuit-federal$350,000,000
ZTE CorporationZTEexport control violation2017DOJ_NATSEC$430,488,798
Telia Company ABTelia Company ABForeign Corrupt Practices Act2017SEC$457,000,000
WorldCom Inc.Verizon Communicationsaccounting fraud or deficiencies2003SEC$500,000,000
EricssonEricssonForeign Corrupt Practices Act2019DOJ_CRIMINAL$520,000,000
EricssonEricssonForeign Corrupt Practices Act2019SEC$539,000,000
Verizon CommunicationsVerizon Communicationstelecommunications violation2018FCC$614,300,000
Zhongxing Telecommunications Equipment Corporation and ZTE Kangxun Telecommunications Ltd.ZTEexport control violation2017BIS$661,000,000
Mobile TeleSystems PJSCMobile TeleSystems PJSCForeign Corrupt Practices Act2019DOJ_CRIMINAL$750,000,000
Zhongxing Telecommunications Equipment Corporation and ZTE Kangxun Telecommunications Ltd.ZTEexport control violation2018BIS$1,400,000,000
(*): Penalty amounts marked by an asterisk are ones announced by more than one agency. Parent penalty totals are adjusted to avoid double-counting.