By David Shepardson
DISH Wireless, a subsidiary of US telecoms giant EchoStar, has agreed to pay $17.3 million to ?resolve a U.S. government fraud investigation.
The probe examined whether the company signed up ?ineligible consumers to take part in a pandemic-era program that provided subsidized broadband services to millions of Americans.
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