Cell carriers fined over missed e911 deadlines
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Feds slap $2.825 million in fees on Sprint Nextel, Alltel and U.S. Cellular in a move designed to demonstrate the importance of location-sensitive phones for mobile subscribers.
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Monday judgement expected on injunction request Truphone got its hour in court yesterday, though judgement in the case - the VoIP operator has applied for an interim injunction to stop T-Mobile blocking its customers from dialling Truphone numbers - is not expected until Monday morning.â¦
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Some cell phone companies charge  their users $100 to $200 to end a contract no matter what the  reason and disguise their own charges as taxes on bills,  witnesses told a congressional panel on Wednesday.
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Greek phone taps Ericsson has been hit with a â¬7.36m ($10m) fine for its role in tapping mobile phones belonging to the Greek prime minister and members of his Cabinet.â¦
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The amount consumers are charged for making mobile phone calls while abroad is to be investigated by EU regulators.
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The European Commission has given mobile network operators until July 1 to cut the cost of using mobile data services while traveling abroad or face regulation.
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They can run, and they can hide US network operators who can't locate their customers in the case of an emergency are facing fines of over $2m, having already been given 18-months grace to comply.â¦
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Service interruptions reported across the U.S.
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Vodafone says some UK users have been temporarily cut off after a text message service upgrade went wrong.
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BISMARCK, ND - State regulators have delayed a ruling about whether an Internet access provider should be treated as a phone company, saying they will wait for a federal decision on the issue.
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U.S. regulators said on Thursday they had proposed penalizing three wireless carriers which the government says failed to meet new stricter standards for being able to locate cellular telephone callers in an emergency.
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WASHINGTON -- The US Federal Trade Commission is seeking the first fines for breaches of a rule banning calls to people whose numbers are on a &quot;do-not-call&quot; registry, saying a Las Vegas telemarketer made more than 300,000 unwelcome pitches.
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WASHINGTON -- Twenty-nine investment firms, including some of Wall Street&#39;s biggest names, have been fined a total $9.2 million by securities regulators who said they were late in reporting disciplinary history and other data about their brokers.
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(InfoWorld) - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)Â has proposed fines totaling $2.8 million to three wireless carriers for failing to meet coverage requirements for an emergency dialing service called E911, the agency said Thursday. The FCC levied the fines against Sprint Nextel, Alltel, and U.S. Cellular for failing to meet a Dec. 31, 2005, deadline for having 95 percent of their networks capable of using enhanced 911, an emergency dialing service that gives dispatchers the location of the call. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said public safety is a top priority at the agency. "I recognize that the public expects us to get these issues right," he said in a statement. "Alltel, Sprint Nextel, and U.S. Cellular failed to meet this critical deadline by a significant margin, despite the clear requirements of the Commission and the needs of their consumers." Sprint Nextel would pay a fine of just over $1.3 million under the FCC's proposal, which the carriers can appeal. Alltel's fine would be $1 million, and U.S. Cellular's would be $500,000, an FCC spokesman said. As of the December 2005 deadline, 81 percent of Sprint's network had E911 service capabilities, while 74 percent of Nextel's network did, according to the FCC. The two companies merged in 2005. About 84 percent of Alltel's customers had E911 service, and about 89 percent of U.S. Cellular's customers did. Alltel and U.S. Cellular have since reached the 95 percent threshold, but Sprint Nextel has not, the FCC said. As of December 2005, 15 million Sprint Nextel customers did not have E911 service, the agency said. Martin called the fines "significant and appropriate." "On the wireless side, Americans increasingly expect that dialing 911 also means first responders can pinpoint a callerâs location, even when the caller is incapacitated or does not know where he or she is," he added. "Our actions today underscore the critical importance that 911 services play in the lives of the public."
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Delays in AT&T's phone activation system left some people unable to use their new toy throughout the weekend.
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Eleven firms are barred as part of action against scams which left dial-up net users with big bills.
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In an Aug. 29 story about a permanent injunction against a Rhode Island man who sent unsolicited text messages to Verizon Wireless cell phone customers, The Associated Press erroneously reported the date of the federal court action. The injunction was granted Aug. 23, not Aug. 27.