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Company: AT&T Mobility LLC
Current Parent Company: AT&T
Parent at the Time of the Penalty Announcement:  subscribe to see this data field
Penalty: $20,000,000
Year: 2014
Date: October 8, 2014
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: telecommunications violation
Violation Description: AT&T Mobility agreed to pay $20 million to resolve multistate litigation alleging that the company billed customers millions of dollars for unauthorized third-party subscriptions and premium text messaging services. This was part of a larger $105 million settlement involving the Federal Communications Commission; see the Violation Tracker entry at (click here)
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Multistate Attorneys General Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Texas
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: telecommunications
Specific Industry of Current Parent: telecommunications
Source of Data: (click here)
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.