The FCC claimed “aggregators” that received customer location data from the carriers turned around and charged third-party location-based service providers for access at a price.

The Federal Communications Commission has fined AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint a combined $200 million in penalties for illegally sharing access to customer location data without their consent. The FCC brought the claim against the US carriers in 2020 and is serving the fined judgment now.

The Federal Communications Commission has leveraged nearly $200 million in fines against wireless carriers AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon for illegally sharing customers’ location data without the

Four wireless carriers were each hit with multi-million-dollar fines by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). They were AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint.

Mobile, and Sprint a total of around $200 million for illegally sharing and selling customers' real-time location data without consent. The carriers sold access

US phone carriers were sharing users’ location without their consent, the US has said. The networks – AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon – must now pay nearly $200 million in fines because of the data breach.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued a substantial fine of nearly $200 million against the four largest wireless carriers in the US – AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile (including its subsidiary Sprint) – for illegally sharing customers’ location data.