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FCC Seeks Comment on Proposed Rules for Blocking Illegal Robotexts

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On September 27, 2022, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) seeking comment on a proposal that would require mobile wireless providers to block illegal text...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

FCC TCPA Actions Mid-Year Review

After adopting orders reflecting the majority of implementation deadlines set by the TRACED Act and the Supreme Court’s highly anticipated TCPA decision interpreting the statutory definition of automatic telephone dialing...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

FCC Report on Status of Reassigned Numbers Database Hints at Mid-2021 Operational Date

The FCC has taken two more steps to implement the "Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence Act" (TRACED Act), under which, as we've reported, it has implemented a number of actions toward stemming illegal...more

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State Attorneys General and Voice Service Providers Agree on Anti-Robocall Principles

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On August 22, 2019, all 50 State Attorneys General, plus the District of Columbia, as well as 12 major voice service providers, announced a set of Anti-Robocall Principles they have agreed to implement, or continue to...more

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The Next Round of the FCC’s “Call Blocking by Default” Approach Kicks off with a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

By directing voice service providers to deal with “unwanted calls” as part of its anti-robocall policies, the FCC seems to have moved well beyond addressing “illegal and spoofed robocalls.” The text of the FCC’s new “Call...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

FCC Adopts Controversial Declaratory Ruling Encouraging “Call Blocking By Default”

Voice service providers soon may dictate which calls will reach you. The FCC honed in on “unwanted calls” when it voted at its Open Meeting yesterday to adopt a Declaratory Ruling and Third Further Proposed Rulemaking (the...more

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FCC Will Host Call Authentication Summit in July 2019

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The FCC’s Chairman Ajit Pai announced that the Commission will host a summit on July 11, 2019 to examine industry’s progress implementing caller ID authentication standards to combat illegal robocalls and caller ID spoofing....more

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Do B2C Telephone Communications Now Need to Win the Popularity Contest to Not Be Preemptively Blocked?

Businesses may dial large volumes of numbers daily for a variety of legitimate purposes. These calls now appear to have become swept up and conflated with illegal robocalls, with a number of undesirable consequences....more

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FCC Chairman Gives Industry SHAKEN/STIR Solution “License to Kill” Spoofed Robocalls

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In a Press Release earlier this week, FCC Chairman Pai gave his blessing to a report of the North American Numbering Council on “SHAKEN/STIR”, an industry-developed set of protocols and operational procedures for the...more

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Telecom Carriers to Block Spoofed Calls From Reaching Consumers

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On August 3, the FCC proposed an $82 million fine against a company and its individual owner/operator for making millions of illegally spoofed “robocalls” to consumers across the country. According to the FCC News Release,...more

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FCC Proposes Rules to Fight Fraudulent Robocalling

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Unsolicited robocalls are the top consumer complaint made to the Federal Communications Commission, which receives over 200,000 complaints a year. An estimated 2.5 billion robocalls are being made to consumers each month,...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

TCPA Update: FCC Seeks Guidance on Proposed Robocall-Blocking Rule

Under new Chairman Ajit Pai’s leadership, the Federal Communications Commission (the “Commission”) is taking its first steps toward reforming its rules interpreting the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”). On...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

What’s New in Washington: 10 Things You Need to Know

Congress entered into its spring recess on April 7 having delivered regulatory reforms to President Trump’s desk. In the first 75 days of the Trump administration, legislators approved 13 Congressional Review Act resolutions,...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

FCC Proposes Rules to Allow Carriers to Block Illegal “Robocalls”

The Federal Communications Commission has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (“NPRM”) and Notice of Inquiry (“NOI”) opening a new docket, Advanced Methods to Target and Eliminate Unlawful Robocalls, which proposes rules...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

FCC Announces Robocalling and Caller ID Spoofing Workshop

Telemarketers and others who may have been wondering how the Federal Communications Commission’s recent and – to industry participants – concerning Declaratory Ruling and Order on the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)...more

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