Verizon settles government probe for $93.5M

By on Apr 5, 2011 at 1:20 PM
Legal April 5, 2011

On Tuesday, Verizon Communications agreed to pay $93.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Justice Department. Verizon was accused of overcharging the U.S. government for both voice and data services. Reuters reports that the the company’s MCI Communications Services unit “invoiced the General Services Administration for various taxes and surcharges in violation of contracts or regulations.” Back in October of 2010, Verizon was ordered by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to repay customers more than $52 million for erroneous data charges.

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  • dz

    real mature verizon

  • http://twitter.com/bc3tech Brandon

    overcharging the gov’t? what about overcharging the rest of us? i realize they repayed for “erroneous data charges” – but they’re still OVER CHARGING! they ALL are! cell industry in US is just one of many things that’ll make me move to EU one day. i swear.

    • sirpaul

      More money is to be made in North America, though. Kind of balances out. In Romania you pay $7 for unlimited national calling, unlimited MMS and SMS, 700 international minutes as well as DSL internet (unlimited, again…with speeds from 10Mb to 100Mb/s – that’s why Romania has some of the best file-sharing portals).

      But that doesn’t mean it’s cheap. Average salary for a software engineer (with 4 years university) is just above $20000 a year. You make more than that working at McDs here in Canada.

    • sirpaul

      More money is to be made in North America, though. Kind of balances out. In Romania you pay $7 for unlimited national calling, unlimited MMS and SMS, 700 international minutes as well as DSL internet (unlimited, again…with speeds from 10Mb to 100Mb/s – that’s why Romania has some of the best file-sharing portals).

      But that doesn’t mean it’s cheap. Average salary for a software engineer (with 4 years university) is just above $20000 a year. You make more than that working at McDs here in Canada.

  • Chris

    What about the rest of us? I’m still waiting for my refund for those “mysterious” data charges. Best service, biggest ripoff!

  • drew dogg

    seriously?! bet you uncle sam was a little short this payment so they just made this ish up. think about what is vz ganna do about it?… nothing… it’s the f-in United States Government! Did they go over mins? Did thier phones “accidently” hit the browser button? BGR just loves bashing VZW. look at every post on vzw products and services all they do is bash VZW and D!@# ride At&t.

    • Anonymous

      I knew something was up, they like to Di@# ride…..

  • Bullet Tooth Tony

    Verizon…. COMMUNICATIONS. That’d be ISDN phone services and T1/T3 services….

    Go park your whiney, bitchy cell phone complaints elsewhere.

    • Sliznut

      What Bullet Tooth Tony said. Did any of you notice they said Verizon Communications and MCI Communications Services?

    • badfishie

      exactly! just what Bullet Tooth Tony said…./

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