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.

T he Federal Communications Commission has fined wireless carriers almost $200 million for illegally selling real-time location data about their customers, the latest chapter in an investigation that started so long ago that one of these carriers no longer exists.

The Federal Communications Commission on Monday fined the largest U.S. wireless carriers nearly $200 million for illegally sharing access to customers’ location information.

The Federal Communications Commission on Monday said it fined the largest U.S. wireless carriers $200 million on grounds that the companies sold their customers’ location data to third parties without consent while not taking steps to protect that info from security compromises.

Presented by Microsoft — {beacon} Technology Technology PRESENTED BY The Big Story FCC fines major mobile carriers $200M The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a fine totaling $200 million to the nation’s four largest mobile carriers,

Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile have agreed to pay $10 million in a settlement with a coalition of 50 attorneys general, putting an end to false claims

In April, the FCC imposed a $57 million fine on AT&T. It was not the only one, since the other two big carriers in the US such as Verizon ($47 million) and T-Mobile ($80 million, $92 million including the fine to Sprint) were also punished.