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Company: Frontier Communications
Current Parent Company: Frontier Communications
Penalty: $69,000,000
Year: 2022
Date: May 5, 2022
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: Frontier Communications agreed to pay $8,573,570 penalties and costs, $250,000 restitution to California consumers, and agreed to deploy fiber optic internet to an additional 60,000 residential locations at an estimated cost up to $60 million, in settlement of a case brought by the FTC, Riverside District Attorney Office, and Los Angeles District Attorney Office alleging deceptive and unfair business practices by Frontier in connection with the sale of residential DSL services. The case was also announced by the DA offices (see separate entry).
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: California Multi-Jurisdiction Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: California
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Connecticut
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: telecommunications
Specific Industry of Current Parent: telecommunications
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.