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Ring, Ring, it’s the FCC Calling- TracFone to Pay $16M to Settle FCC Investigation

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 8/2/2024

TracFone, the pre-paid phone company, recently settled with the FCC over allegations that the company failed to protect customer information during three different data incidents. According to the FCC, in each of the...more

Tracfone Settles FCC Investigation for $16 Million

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 7/25/2024

This week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced a settlement with TracFone Wireless to resolve investigations into whether TracFone failed to reasonably protect its customers’ information from unauthorized...more

AI-Generated Voice Calls: New Tech, Old Rules

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 2/28/2024

The FCC reminded companies this month that calls containing “artificial or prerecorded voices” are regulated by TCPA. And, that the FCC considers AI-generated voices to be just the kind of “artificial” that fall within the...more

FCC Adopts New TCPA Rules Expanding Consumer Consent Revocation Mandates

Womble Bond Dickinson on 2/23/2024

The FCC has adopted a Report and Order imposing a number of new TCPA caller and sender compliance obligations in connection with consumer revocation requests, which are applicable to calls and text messages that otherwise...more

New FCC Rule Affects Consumer Consent for Robocalls and Robotexts

Jones Day on 12/22/2023

A new FCC rule will require comparison shopping websites and lead generators to obtain consumer consent to receive robocalls and robotext messages one seller at a time....more

FCC Closes Lead Generator Loophole by Requiring One-to-One Consent; Proposes Further Regulation of Robocalls/RoboTexts

Troutman Pepper on 12/18/2023

On December 13, by a vote of 4-1, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted new rules aimed at “closing the ‘lead generator’ robocall/robotexts loophole.” Specifically, the rule requires telemarketers to obtain...more

Shutting Down the Cell Phone Scammers: The FCC Adopts Rules to Crack Down on Fraudulent Practices against Wireless Phone Users

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 12/1/2023

On November 16, 2023, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) released a Report & Order (“Order”) and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“FNPRM”), adopting measures to address two techniques bad actors frequently...more

REMINDER—New Rules Impacting Exempted Calls Now Effective

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 8/25/2023

On July 20, 2023, the new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules amending various Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) exemptions for artificial or prerecorded voice calls to residential telephone lines became...more

Connecticut Senate Bill 1058

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 8/25/2023

The state telemarketing law amendment trend continues. On June 26, 2023, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed S.B. 1058 into law. Connecticut General Assembly, Substitute for Raised S.B. No. 1058. This bill makes important...more

Ninth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of TCPA Case Involving Text Messages Holding “Prerecorded Voice Messages” Require Audible...

Troutman Pepper on 8/15/2023

On August 8, a unanimous panel of the Ninth Circuit issued a decision affirming a district court’s partial dismissal judgment entered in Trim v. Reward Zone USA LLC, holding that text messages did not use prerecorded voices...more

FCC Levies $5 Million Fine for Political Calling Campaign That Violated the TCPA

Venable LLP on 6/9/2023

As part of a broader campaign to go after “robocall” violations, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced a $5,134,500 fine against a company and its owners for making 1,141 robocalls in 2020 that violated...more

TCPA Tracker - February and March 2023

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 4/19/2023

RECENT NEWS - FCC Issues Report and Order Aimed at Unlawful Texting - On February 23, 2023, the FCC issued a Report and Order (the “Order”) which took aim at unlawful texting, marking the first time the FCC has taken...more

FCC Takes On Texts, Expands Consumer Protections

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 4/12/2023

It has been busy at the FCC. On March 16, 2023, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) announced its issuance of two headline-making Report and Order and Further Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM)...more

FCC Takes First Steps to Curb Scam Texts, Looks to Clamp Down on Lead Generators

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck on 3/21/2023

Blocking Texts Highly Likely to Be Illegal - Until now, the FCC has focused on curbing illegal robocalls. It has now turned its attention to illegal robotexts, which the agency notes have been increasing rapidly. In an...more

Conflicting Decisions Illustrate Uncertainty as to Whether TCPA Extends to Text Messages

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 2/16/2023

Two recent District Court opinions highlight an ongoing dispute as to whether the TCPA and its implementing regulations should apply to mobile (cellular) phones and text messages received thereon, as opposed to the more...more

North Carolina Judge Says Cell Phones Not Subject to Federal Do-Not-Call Protections

Venable LLP on 2/14/2023

Last week, a magistrate judge in U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina dismissed a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) lawsuit brought by a plaintiff who claimed calls made by an insurance lead...more

FCC Confirms “Ringless Voicemails” Are Subject to the TCPA

Goodwin on 12/21/2022

On November 21, 2022, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released an order concerning “ringless voicemails” and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). In this ruling, the FCC confirmed that the delivery of...more

TCPA Tracker November 2022

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 12/15/2022

RECENT NEWS - Consumer Consent Required to Send “Ringless Voicemails,” FCC Finds - The Federal Communications Commission ("FCC"), in a recent Declaratory Ruling and Order, stated that callers must obtain consumer...more

TCPA FCC Petitions Tracker - December 2022

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 12/15/2022

Kelley Drye’s Communications Practice Group presents this tracker of active Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) petitions before the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”). With the recent increase in litigation...more

FCC Declares Ringless Voicemails to Be Calls Subject to the TCPA

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck on 12/1/2022

The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) released an order finding that ringless voicemails constitute calls subject to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”). Companies sending prerecorded or artificial messages...more

TCPA FCC Petitions Tracker - July 2022

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 7/22/2022

Kelley Drye’s Communications Practice Group presents this tracker of active Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) petitions before the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”). With the recent increase in litigation...more

Use of Signal Jammer to Prevent Employees from Using their Phones at Work Results in FCC Fine

Smith Gambrell Russell on 2/10/2022

While the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) previously upheld an employer policy that prohibited employee phone use at work for safety and security reasons, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) recently upheld...more

TCPA FCC Petitions Tracker - November 2021

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 12/1/2021

Kelley Drye’s Communications Practice Group presents this tracker of active Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) petitions before the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”). With the recent increase in litigation...more

FCC Proposes New Robocall Mitigation Regulations on Gateway Providers

Wiley Rein LLP on 10/28/2021

At the September 30, 2021 Open Meeting, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) adopted a Fifth Further Notice of Proposing Rulemaking (FNPRM) that proposes additional regulatory requirements on the gateway...more

Business or Residential? Ambiguity Surrounding Number on Do Not Call Registry Can Defeat Class Certification

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 5/4/2021

In an interesting decision from the District Court of Oregon, United States Magistrate Judge Youlee Yim You recommended granting a motion to deny class certification where uncertainty about the appropriate classification of a...more

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