T-Mobile Agrees to Pay $7.5M Fine to Settle Lifeline Investigation
The FCC said T-Mobile agreed to pay a $7.5 million civil penalty to resolve an Enforcement Bureau investigation of whether T-Mobile, doing business as Assurance Wireless, violated the commission’s Lifeline rules “regarding the submission of claims for ineligible subscribers due…
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to non-usage after the effective date” of a 2020 consent decree. In 2020, T-Mobile agreed to pay a $200 million fine to address an investigation of waste, fraud and abuse connected with Sprint receiving Lifeline subsidies for 885,000 subscribers who weren’t using the service (see 2011040050). T-Mobile bought Sprint earlier that year. “In the absence of material new evidence relating to this matter, we do not set for hearing the question of T-Mobile’s basic qualifications to hold or obtain any Commission license or Authorization,” said an order in Monday’s “Daily Digest.”