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Federal Communications Commission Initiates Proceeding to Remove Over 2,000 Providers from Robocall Mitigation Database - On December 10, the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau (Bureau) released an Order directing over 2,000...more
The Federal Communications Commission (Commission) adopted a Report and Order authorizing telecommunications service providers with a STIR/SHAKEN caller ID authentication obligation (i.e., originating, intermediate, and...more
The FCC has released its annual Report and Order showing the regulatory fees due for the 2024 fiscal year. Fees must be paid by 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on September 26. The FCC's CORES payment module is accepting fee payments...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
Last week the Justice Department (DOJ) announced a resolution of the long standing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action involving Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Ericsson), a multinational networking and...more
On May 7, 2019, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the Proposed Rulemaking) to implement portions of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA)....more
A recent decision by a Connecticut district court reiterates that the issue of consent may foreclose class certification in Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) junk fax cases....more
The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (“NDAA”) imposes new restrictions on procurements for telecommunications equipment or services based on ties to certain Chinese entities, thereby growing the list of forbidden...more
Congress yesterday passed the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes a section on prohibitions ofcertain telecommunications and video surveillance equipment (Sec. 889). The bill is expected to be...more
Promoting infrastructure investment and broadband deployment has been a top priority for Chairman Ajit Pai’s FCC. On July 12, 2018, the Chairman took a significant stride in advancing his agenda by releasing a draft report...more
The Seventh Circuit has held that a voice mail message left for a consumer is a “communication” under the FDCPA. In Hart v. Credit Control, LLC, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 18375 (11th Cir. Sept, 22, 2017), the debt collector left...more
On September 10, USAC posted a Request for Information (RFI)—usually a precursor to an RFP—to prospective vendors of a third party “national Lifeline eligibility verifier” system, proposed in the FCC’s pending Lifeline...more
On December 9, 2014, Bill C-13, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Canada Evidence Act, the Competition Act and the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act, also known as the Protecting Canadians from Online Crime...more
On March 27, 2014, a New Jersey federal jury found that Avaya, Inc. (“Avaya”), a leading manufacturer of enterprise telephone systems, violated the federal antitrust laws by trying to eliminate competition from independent...more