{"id":1007075,"date":"2026-05-07T10:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007075"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:17:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:47:02","slug":"dish-to-pay-17-million-to-resolve-us-probe-into-fraud-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/07\/dish-to-pay-17-million-to-resolve-us-probe-into-fraud-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"DISH to pay $17 million to resolve US probe into fraud claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: DISH Wireless agreed to pay $17.3 million to resolve a U.S. government investigation that it signed up ineligible consumers to take part in a pandemic-era program that provided subsidized broadband services to millions \u200cof Americans. <\/p>\n<p>DISH, \u2060a \u2060subsidiary of EchoStar, provides service through Boost Mobile and allegedly received payments for thousands of ineligible consumers, the Justice Department said. <\/p>\n<p>Congress allocated $17 billion to help lower-income families and people affected by COVID-19 gain internet access through a $30-per-month voucher toward paying for internet service that was used by about 21 \u2060million U.S. \u200chouseholds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: DISH Wireless agreed to pay $17.3 million to resolve a U.S. government investigation that it signed up ineligible consumers to take part in a pandemic-era program that provided subsidized broadband services to millions \u200cof Americans. DISH, \u2060a \u2060subsidiary of EchoStar, provides service through Boost Mobile and allegedly received payments for thousands of ineligible consumers, the Justice Department said. Congress allocated $17 billion to help lower-income families and people affected by COVID-19 gain internet access through a $30-per-month voucher toward paying for internet service that was used by about 21 \u2060million U.S. \u200chouseholds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}