T-Mobile, Sprint Can’t Shake $92 Million Location Data Fine (1)

T-Mobile USA Inc. and Sprint failed to convince the DC Circuit to vacate FCC orders that cost the carriers more than $90 million over failing to vet who gets their customer location information.

Neither Sprint nor T-Mobile denied that third parties that had access to the data failed to obtain customer consent, and they continued for some time to sell location information without new safeguards, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit said Friday.

The companies, now merged, argued that the incident didn’t violate the law; that the Federal Communications Commission misinterpreted the Communications Act or its ...