Judge Says TracFone Owes Kentucky Millions

{Kentucky}...U.S. District Judge John G. Heyburn, a federal judge in Kentucky, ruled Thursday that Miami-based TracFone Wireless, the largest prepaid cell phone company in the country, owes Kentucky more than $4.7 million in unpaid 911 emergency fees dating to 2003. Heyburn ordered TracFone Wireless to pay the state because it didn't remit the service fee starting eight years ago, when the company argued that the fees did not apply to prepaid wireless providers. Heyburn also ruled that TracFone owes Kentucky $425,000 in attorney's fees. Heyburn said that, despite changes in the law, Kentucky was entitled to collect $2.5 million in unremitted fees from November 2003 through July 2006, $2 million in fees not paid to the state collected from direct sales from July 2006 through June 2011 and $139,000 in fees collected from indirect sales from July 2006 through September 2009.