UPDATE 2-T-Mobile to pay $40 mln over false ring tones on rural U.S. calls
April 16, 2018 at 17:03 PM EDT
WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) - T-Mobile USA Inc agreed to pay $40 million on Monday to resolve government claims that it failed to fix problems completing phone calls in rural areas and used false ring tones, which are banned, to give the impression faulty calls were actually getting through, the Federal Communications Commission said.