Verizon and Sprint will pay $158 million to settle FCC billing complaint charges<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p class="intro">Verizon Wireless and Sprint will pay a combined total of $158 million to settle billing complain charges filed by the Federal Communications Commission.</p> <p><a href='
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Verizon will pay $90 million, while
Sprint will have to spend $68 million, for a total of $158 million. At least $120 million of the total amount will go to reimbursing consumers hit with the charges.</p> <!--break--> <p>The FCC said that both companies billed their customers for "unauthorized third-party premium text messaging services", which has become known under the term "cramming." The government agency previously settled a similar case with
T-Mobile in 2014,
for the price of $90 million.
AT&T also agreed to
pay $105 million to the FCC to settle its own "cramming" charges in 2014.</p> <p>Source:
FCC</p> </div></div></div><img width='1' height='1' src='
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