Violation Tracker Individual Record
Company:
Sprint Corp.
Current Parent Company:
SoftBank
Penalty:
$68,000,000
Year:
2015
Date:
May 12, 2015
Offense Group:
consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense:
telecommunications violation
Violation Description:
The Federal Communications Commission's Enforcement Bureau announced that Verizon Wireless agreed to pay $90 million and Sprint Corporation agreed to pay $68 million to settle investigations that revealed the companies billed customers millions of dollars in unauthorized third-party premium text messaging services, a practice called cramming.
Level of Government:
federal
Action Type:
agency action
Agency:
Federal Communications Commission
Civil or Criminal Case:
civil
HQ Country of Parent:
Japan
Ownership Structure of Parent:
publicly traded
Major Industry of Parent:
telecommunications
Specific Industry of Parent:
telecommunications
Source of Data:
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Parent company note:
Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.
