03:57 PM EDT, 04/29/2024 (MT Newswires) -- T-Mobile US ( TMUS ) , Sprint, AT&T ( T ) , and Verizon (VZ) faces combined fines of almost $200 million for allegedly selling access to their customers' location data without consent, the Federal Communications Commission said Monday.

The US wireless carriers also allegedly continued to share the sensitive information "without reasonable safeguards," to "aggregators," which resold access to third-party location-based service providers, the FCC said in a statement.

T-Mobile and Sprint, which merged in 2020, face a combined fine of about $92 million, the regulator said.

The FCC imposed fines of more than $57 million against AT&T ( T ) and almost $47 million against Verizon.

T-Mobile said it intends to challenge the FCC's "wrong" decision and "excessive" fine, while AT&T ( T ) and Verizon separately said they will appeal the FCC order.

"This industry-wide third-party aggregator location-based services program was discontinued more than five years ago after we took steps to ensure that critical services like roadside assistance, fraud protection and emergency response would not be disrupted," T-Mobile said in a statement sent to MT Newswires.

Verizon spokesman Rich Young said the company is "deeply committed to protecting customer privacy," and the FCC order "gets it wrong on both the facts and the law."

"The FCC order lacks both legal and factual merit," an AT&T ( T ) spokesperson. "The FCC calculated its staggering fine without any hearing, with an egregiously irrational methodology, and in contradiction to its governing statute."

T-Mobile shares rose 0.2% in recent Monday trading. AT&T ( T ) climbed 1.5%, and Verizon gained 1%.

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