Sprint, AT&amp;T to Pay About $1.5 Million for Unfair Practices
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Sprint Corp. and AT&amp;T Corp. have agreed to pay a total of nearly $1.5 million to settle government charges that they denied or limited phone service to hundreds of thousands of customers
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WASHINGTON  - AT&T Corp.  will pay $100 million to end a class-action lawsuit by investors who accused AT&T and former Chairman C. Michael Armstrong of lying about its outlook to boost its share price, the company said on Tuesday.
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The four companies, charged with criminal conspiracy to violate anti-kickback laws, have agreed to pay $311 million in penalties.
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After being caught using phony bills as a way to pressure Massachusetts consumers to sign up for telephone service, AT&amp;T Corp. yesterday agreed to a $565,000 settlement with state prosecutors and utility regulators.
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The state Public Utilities Commission also ordered Cingular, a joint venture of SBC Communications and BellSouth, to pay refunds to thousands of customers who were forced to pay up to $550 in fees to cancel their service from January 2000 to April 2002.
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Sprint Corp., the third-biggest US long-distance carrier, had a third-quarter loss of $1.91 billion on costs to write down the value of its telephone network as it shifts to reliance
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Direct Revenue LLC will pay $1.5 million to settle adware-related charges filed by the Federal Trade Commission.
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So long, annoying people Sprint-Nextel has terminated the accounts of its 1,000 most-annoying customers. After a recent internal review, the U.S. wireless carrier gave at least 1,000 people the boot because they've been making far too many calls to the company's customer care centers. Of course, the real shocker is that the company has agreed to waIve their termination fees.â¦
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WASHINGTON -- A federal jury in San Diego yesterday ordered Microsoft Corp. to pay $1.52 billion to Alcatel - Lucent for violating two patents for a technology used by hundreds of companies to play digital music on computers, cellphones, and other devices.
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Promises to side-step its way out, again VoIP provider Vonage has lost another patent battle, this time with Sprint Nextel, which owns six infringed patents and stands to gain almost $70m in a court-ordered payout.â¦
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AT&amp;T, the US telecommunications group, yesterday said it will take a restructuring charge of about $1.1 billion in the third quarter mainly to cover the cost of about 7,000 job cuts and revalue downward its assets by $11.
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Wireless technology company  Freedom Wireless Inc. said on Friday it sued five wireless  carriers and services providers -- including Cingular Wireless  and Ericsson -- over patent infringement charges.
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So long, annoying people Sprint-Nextel has terminated the accounts of its 1,000 most-annoying customers. After a recent internal review, the U.S. wireless carrier gave at least 1,000 people the boot because they've been making far too many calls to the company's customer care centers. Of course, the real shocker is that the company has agreed to wave their termination fees.â¦
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Microsoft Corp. must pay $1.52 billion in damages to telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent SA for violating two patents related to digital music, a federal jury ruled Thursday.
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For the past two years, Sprint Nextel has been trying to reroute its cellphone signals to avoid causing static on emergency radios used at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. The wireless carrier and Maryland officials dispute who should pay for some of the costs.
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WASHINGTON - UnitedHealthcare will pay the federal government $3.5 million to settle allegations of fraud stemming from mishandling of telephone calls involving the Medicare program, the Justice Department announced.
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The Federal Trade Commission said Friday that it will make Sprint Corp. pay $1.125 million to settle charges that the telecommunications giant skirted federal credit laws.