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FCC Adopts New Accessibility Requirements for Video Conferencing Services - Update

Update as of January 10, 2025: In a Public Notice released on January 3, 2025, the FCC announced that a summary of the Second R&O was published in the Federal Register on December 15, 2024, establishing January 13, 2025, as...more

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FCC Proposes New Regulations To Assess and Protect Against National Security Risks in Submarine Cable Networks

On November 21, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") approved a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("NPRM") focused on enhancing FCC review and oversight of the global subsea communications cable network through...more

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FCC Adopts New Accessibility Requirements for Video Conferencing Services

On September 26, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") adopted a Report and Order (the "Second R&O") setting forth new rules to make interoperable video conferencing services ("IVCS") more accessible to people...more

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Telephone and Texting Compliance News: Regulatory Update — Federal Communications Commission to Consider New Call and Text...

On September 5, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a draft Eighth Report and Order (“Calling Report and Order”) and Third Report and Order (“Texting Report and Order” and with the Calling Report and Order,...more

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Telephone and Texting Compliance News: Regulatory Update — FCC Resolves Investigation of Lingo Telecom, Finalizes Proposed...

In May, we reported that the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) had adopted a Notice of Apparent Liability (NAL) against a voice service provider, Lingo Telecom, LLC (Lingo), for transmitting illegally spoofed,...more

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FCC Extends E-Rate to Off-Premises Wi-Fi Hotspots

On July 29, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") issued a Report and Order ("Order") extending E-Rate support to off-premises Wi-Fi hotspots for use by students, school staff, and library patrons. Hotspots had...more

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Telephone and Texting Compliance News: Regulatory Update — FCC Acts Against Provider Facilitating Tax Robocalls and Initiates...

Federal Communications Commission Takes Further Action Against Provider Facilitating Illegal Tax Robocalls - Following up on its previous enforcement actions, the Federal Communications Commission’s (Commission)...more

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Telephone and Texting Compliance News — July 2024

We are pleased to present our latest edition of Telephone and Texting Compliance News, providing insights and news related to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). In this month’s Regulatory Update, we cover the FCC’s...more

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Telephone and Texting Compliance News: Regulatory Update — FCC Confirms TCPA Bars AI-Generated Voices, Adopts New Consent...

Commission Declares TCPA Prohibits AI-Generated Voices - Following up on January’s update, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a Declaratory Ruling that confirms that the prohibitions in the Telephone...more

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Telephone and Texting Compliance News: Regulatory Update — FCC Floats Proposals on Consumer Consent and AI-Generated Voices,...

On January 25, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (“Commission”) released a draft Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“Further Notice”) for consideration at its February 15, 2024, Open...more

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Telephone and Texting Compliance News — January 2024

We are pleased to present our latest edition of Telephone and Texting Compliance News, providing insights and news related to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). In this month’s newsletter, we discuss the FCC’s...more

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FCC's Expansive New Rules Prohibiting "Digital Discrimination" in Broadband Access

On November 20, 2023, as required by Section 60506 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (Infrastructure Act), 47 U.S.C. § 1754, the Federal Communications Commission issued a Report and Order and Further...more

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California Proposes Website Accessibility Law with Significant Compliance Obligations and Liability Risks Nationwide

On June 12, 2023, the California Assembly's Judiciary Committee replaced the full contents of AB 1757 (a bill originally addressing court consolidation) with new legislative language featuring heightened standards for...more

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Video Conferencing Services Must Be Made Accessible by Next September

The FCC's June 2023 Report and Order clarifying the broad scope of video conferencing services that must be made accessible to persons with disabilities was published today in the Federal Register. As such, by no later than...more

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FCC Expands STIR/SHAKEN to Intermediate Providers and Extends Robocall Mitigation Requirements

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The FCC has released new rules that expand caller ID authentication requirements, impose enhanced robocall mitigation obligations, create new mechanisms to hold providers accountable for non-compliance, and set forth the...more

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FCC Proposes Updates to Customer Proprietary Network Information Breach Reporting Requirements

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposes redefining “breach” to include inadvertent disclosures of customer proprietary network information. The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) also proposes to update the...more

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FCC Seeks Comment on Additional Foreign Government-Sponsored Programming Rules

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On October 6, 2022, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) released a Second Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Second NPRM) in which the Commission proposed to amend its rules for the identification of foreign...more

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