location Archives - Telecoms Tech News https://www.telecomstechnews.com/news/tag/location/ M2M, Small Cells, OTT VoiP, Wimax, 5G, LTE, IPTV Tue, 30 Apr 2024 12:43:44 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.telecomstechnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/telecom-icon-60x60.png location Archives - Telecoms Tech News https://www.telecomstechnews.com/news/tag/location/ 32 32 FCC fines major telcos for selling users’ location data https://www.telecomstechnews.com/news/fcc-fines-major-telcos-selling-users-location-data/ https://www.telecomstechnews.com/news/fcc-fines-major-telcos-selling-users-location-data/#respond Tue, 30 Apr 2024 12:43:43 +0000 https://www.telecomstechnews.com//?p=99654 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined major US telcos for illegally selling their subscribers’ location data to third-party data brokers. According to an FCC statement, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile US – the latter two having merged in 2020 – were ordered to pay $57 million, $47 million, $12 million, and $80 million, respectively,... Read more »

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