Verizon and a company it bought just paid $614M in biggest FCC fine ever

Verizon and a company it bought just paid $614M in biggest FCC fine ever

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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/verizon-and-a-company-it-bought-just-paid-614m-in-biggest-fcc-fine-ever/

The Federal Communications Commission today collected a $614.3 million fine from Verizon and Straight Path, a company that Verizon just bought.

The merger and fine are related. Straight Path held about 1,000 FCC spectrum licenses but failed to use them. Straight Path thus entered a settlement with the FCC requiring it "to sell its licenses and remit 20 percent of the overallĀ proceeds of the transaction to the US Treasury," the FCC said in its announcement today.

Verizon and a company it bought just paid $614M in biggest FCC fine ever

Mar 1, 2018, 12:14am UTC
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/verizon-and-a-company-it-bought-just-paid-614m-in-biggest-fcc-fine-ever/ >The Federal Communications Commission today collected a $614.3 million fine from Verizon and Straight Path, a company that Verizon just bought. >The merger and fine are related. Straight Path held about 1,000 FCC spectrum licenses but failed to use them. Straight Path thus entered a settlement with the FCC requiring it "to sell its licenses and remit 20 percent of the overallĀ proceeds of the transaction to the US Treasury," the FCC said in its announcement today.