Technology, Communications & Media

The next-generation of wireless technologies – known as 5G – is expected to revolutionize business and consumer connectivity, offering network speeds that are up to 100 times faster than 4G LTE, reducing latency to nearly zero, and allowing networks to handle 100 times the number of connected devices, enabling the “Internet of Things.”  Leading policymakers – federal regulators and legislators – are making it a top priority to ensure that the wireless industry has the tools it needs to maintain U.S. leadership in commercial 5G deployments.  This blog provides monthly updates on FCC actions and Congressional efforts to win the race to 5G.

The FCC issued a Public Notice reminding non-facilities-based small voice providers with 100,000 or fewer voice lines of the June 30 deadline for implementing STIR/SHAKEN caller ID technology and a related deadline for updating the Robocall Mitigation Database.

Our TCPA newsletter covers an FCC Public Notice reminding non-facilities-based small voice providers with 100,000 or fewer voice lines of the June 30 deadline for implementing STIR/SHAKEN caller ID technology, plus Oklahoma and other state legislation to restrict telephonic sales calls in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s Facebook decision limiting the application of the TCPA.

Oklahoma joined Florida in passing a state law restricting telephonic sales calls in response to the US Supreme Court’s Facebook v. Duguid decision, which limits the application of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act to live calls and text messages.

The next-generation of wireless technologies – known as 5G – is expected to revolutionize business and consumer connectivity, offering network speeds that are up to 100 times faster than 4G LTE, reducing latency to nearly zero, and allowing networks to handle 100 times the number of connected devices, enabling the “Internet of Things.”  Leading policymakers – federal regulators and legislators – are making it a top priority to ensure that the wireless industry has the tools it needs to maintain U.S. leadership in commercial 5G deployments.  This blog provides monthly updates on FCC actions and Congressional efforts to win the race to 5G.

Our TCPA digest discusses the FCC’s adoption of new obligations for certain U.S.-based voice service providers that accept foreign-originated calls with U.S. numbers before transmitting the calls to another U.S.-based provider and proposed FCC rule changes to combat robocalling.

The FCC adopted new obligations for certain U.S.-based voice service providers that accept foreign-originated calls with U.S. numbers before transmitting the calls to another U.S.-based provider and proposed FCC rule changes to combat robocalling.

The next-generation of wireless technologies – known as 5G – is expected to revolutionize business and consumer connectivity. Leading policymakers – federal regulators and legislators – are making it a top priority to ensure that the wireless industry has the tools it needs to maintain U.S. leadership in commercial 5G deployments.  This blog provides monthly updates on FCC actions and Congressional efforts to win the race to 5G.

Our TCPA newsletter discusses the FCC’s growing partnerships with states to combat robocalls, the latest cease-and-desist letters, FCC clarifications regarding the RND, and the Eighth Circuit’s ruling in Beal v. Outfield Brew House.

The FCC expands its robocalling investigation partnerships, sends cease-and-desist letters to additional companies, issues clarifications regarding the RND, and discusses its efforts to combat scam calls. 

The Eighth Circuit’s Beal v. Outfield Brew House ruling rejected plaintiffs’ misreading of the Supreme Court’s 2021 Facebook decision and should help bolster TCPA defendants’ arguments nationwide.

Read about the FCC Enforcement Bureau’s proposed record fine of $45 million, which would be issued against a Florida-based company for alleged robocalls advertising that states’ health insurance open enrollment periods had been reopened due to COVID-19.

Our TCPA newsletter discusses the FCC’s increased collaboration with states to combat robocalling and its proposed record fine of $45 million for health care–alleged robocalls and a District of Maryland dismissal of a TCPA case concerning a fax about a free webinar.

In its dismissal of a TCPA case concerning a fax about a free webinar, Family Health Physical Medicine v. Pulse8, the District of Maryland noted that the fax did not contain an offer to buy or sell anything. 

Read about the FCC’s increased collaboration with states to combat robocalling, including investigatory partnerships with four states and agreements between the Commission’s Enforcement Bureau and the state attorneys general of Colorado and Vermont.

Mintz’s TCPA litigation team discusses some plaintiffs’ attempts to argue that text messages can be considered “voices” under TCPA and may thus constitute TCPA violations.