Charter to pay $15 million to resolve US probe into network outage rules

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Charter Communications will pay a $15 million civil penalty to resolve an investigation into compliance with network and 911 outage notification rules, the Federal Communications Commission said on Monday.

The FCC said Charter admitted to violating the agency’s rules on notifications to public safety officials and the commission in connection with three unplanned network outages and hundreds of scheduled maintenance-related network outages that occurred in 2023. The FCC said a February 2023 network outage was because Charter’s network was the target of a minor denial of service attack.

(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Leslie Adler)