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- T-Mobile (TMUS +1.6%) will pay $19.5 million to settle a Federal Communications Commission investigation into compliance with the FCC's 911 rules.
- That stems from a lengthy summer 2020 outage in which the FCC says caused the "complete failure" of more than 23,000 calls to the emergency-service number.
- The agency issued a letter of inquiry on the matter to T-Mobile in December 2020.
- In the settlement, along with the payment T-Mobile will implement a compliance plan with new commitments to improve 911 outage notices given to public safety answering points.
- The outage hit T-Mobile at midday June 15, 2020, and lasted for 12 hours and 13 minutes.