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Investigative Power: Utilizing Self Service Solutions for Internal Investigations?
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Cybersecurity and 889 Compliance in 2021: What Government Contractors Need to Know
CF on Cyber: An Update on the Florida Security of Communications Act (FSCA)
Investing in Colombia: Infrastructure Trends and 5G Concessions
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Navigating Section 889 of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act
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The Promise of Connectivity: A Conversation with USTelecom President & CEO Jonathan Spalter
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The governor of Maine recently signed an amendment to the state’s telephone solicitation law that will make it mandatory for telephone solicitors to check against the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) reassigned...more
On March 25, the Governor of Maine approved a new bill, HP 1433, that would require telephone solicitors to leverage the reassigned numbers database. As previously covered by InfoBytes, the FCC created the reassigned numbers...more
As part of Manatt’s continuing monthly coverage of the aftermath of Facebook v. Duguid and how district courts are applying it to determine whether a calling system meets the Supreme Court’s newly clarified definition of an...more
Each month, Kelley Drye’s Communications Group offers this reminder of upcoming filing deadlines that may affect our clients....more
I hope that many of you were able to power down during the holidays before ramping up again to start 2023. The FCC, however, maintained a busy pace of announcements, releasing news on several issues regarding the Telephone...more
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) poses a constant threat to companies that wish to communicate with existing and prospective customers because the statute imposes strict liability on companies that call or text...more
After years of discussion and planning, the FCC’s Reassigned Numbers Database opened for commercial use on November 1, 2021. Now business callers can register for a paid subscription with the FCC’s designated Administrator,...more
Earlier this year, we were asked to suggest 2021 resolutions for clients in the telecommunications, media, and technology industries. We developed several that should guide industry participants to improve their compliance...more
The FCC continues to slowly, but surely, make progress towards launching the Reassigned Number Database that it first proposed in June 2017 and then ultimately voted to create in December 2018. On December 1, 2020, the...more
On March 30, 2020, the American Bankers Association (“ABA”) and several other associations of banks and credit unions (together, “petitioners”) effectively asked the FCC to exempt all COVID-related calls and texts to...more
Recent News - FCC to Address Two Call Blocking Items at its June Meeting - On May 15th, the FCC provided a preview of two TCPA-related items that will be addressed at its June 6, 2019 Open Meeting. First, the FCC...more
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
Our TCPA Counseling & Litigation Team provides an overview of Telephone Consumer Protection Act news from 2018, highlighted by the D.C. Circuit’s ACA International decision, and a preview of a Supreme Court case coming in...more
For years, consumer-facing companies have been subjected to draconian, disproportionate liability under the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) for calling existing customers whose phone numbers have been...more
Each year in the United States, approximately 37 million telephone numbers are reassigned to new subscribers. Sometimes this reassignment can happen in as little as a few days—meaning the customer’s phone number that you...more
The FCC has taken a step toward getting control over the potential TCPA exposure a business faces when it calls one of its customers at a phone number that, unbeknownst to the business, has been reassigned from the customer...more
The Federal Communications Commission (the “FCC”) has adopted new rules (set forth in its Second Report and Order) to establish a single, nationwide database with information provided by phone companies that will allow...more
• Companies across industries have been facing TCPA litigation based upon calls and text messages to reassigned telephone numbers. • On December 12, 2018, the FCC—with the support of many parties and industry groups—voted...more
Tomorrow the FCC is set to meet and, presumably, to approve a Second Report and Order creating a database of re-assigned numbers... The database is being created to help callers avoid calling wrong numbers. When a phone...more
Intrusive, unwanted calls are the Federal Communications Commission’s top consumer complaint. As part of its efforts to combat robocalls, the FCC has released two draft orders that are slated to be approved at its next open...more
The FCC plans to take aim again at unwanted texts and robocalls at its next meeting scheduled for December 12, 2018. Unwanted robocalls and texting consistently top the list of complaints received by the FCC and that has...more
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai proposed the creation of a comprehensive reassigned numbers database, addressing a significant compliance challenge under the TCPA. The TCPA’s prohibitions on the use of automatic telephone dialing...more
In Roark v. Credit One Bank, N.A., No. 16-173 (PAM/ECW), 2018 WL 5921652 (D. Minn. Nov. 13, 2018), the District Court of Minnesota found that calls to a reassigned phone number did not violate the TCPA because the caller’s...more
Plaintiff filed suit alleging Defendant violated the TCPA by calling his recently assigned cell phone number 140 times to collect debt from another, including leaving 4 prerecorded messages. ...more