AT&T agreed to pay $10,080,600 in a consent decree to end FCC inv...
AT&T agreed to pay $10,080,600 in a consent decree to end FCC investigations into whether the company violated FCC rules on customer proprietary network information and recovery of universal service fund contributions from customers, the FCC said late Tuesday.…
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AT&T also agreed to develop, within 60 calendar days, plans to ensure future compliance with FCC rules, the FCC said. The investigations related to complaints about AT&T’s CPNI opt-out mechanism, and a voluntary disclosure by AT&T that it had recovered federal USF contribution costs from end users in excess of permitted amounts. “While these were inadvertent errors, we regret that they occurred,” AT&T said in a statement. “To resolve these matters, we have entered into a consent decree, which includes implementing additional internal controls.”