The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau issued a so-called K4 Notice informing all U.S.-based voice service providers that continuing to accept or facilitate traffic from Urth Access, LLC may result in enforcement action being taken against them. The agency also adopted a Notice of Inquiry seeking information on the non-IP technology in the nation’s phone networks.

Our Telephone Calling and Texting Compliance Developments newsletter covers an FCC Notice U.S.-based voice service providers of enforcement action if they continue to accept or facilitate traffic from Urth Access, LLC, the agency’s Notice of Inquiry seeking information on the non-IP technology in the nation’s phone networks, and a Ninth Circuit decision eliminating potential ambiguity concerning the definition of an automatic telephone dialing system in the TCPA.

The FCC is seeking comment on a proposal to require mobile providers to block illegal text messages and apply caller ID authentication technology to text messages, issued Orders starting the process of removing seven voice service providers from the Robocall Mitigation Database, and issued a notice that it is considering seeking comment on non-IP technology in the nation’s phone networks and how it impacts the Commission’s work to stop robocalls. 

Our TCPA newsletter covers the FCC’s proposal to require mobile providers to block illegal text messages and apply caller ID authentication technology to text messages, Orders to start the process of removing seven voice service providers from the Robocall Mitigation Database, and a pending Fourth Circuit appeal of a federal court’s certification of a class in a TCPA case without consideration of the defendant’s Established Business Relationships with the named plaintiffs.

The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau selected USTelecom-led Industry Traceback Group to continue as the registered traceback consortium. Also, the FCC and the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications signed an updated MOU that includes a focus on combatting unwanted robocalls and the promotion of 5G and other next-generation communications technologies.

Our TCPA newsletter covers the FCC’s selection of the USTelecom-led Industry Traceback Group to continue as the registered traceback consortium, an updated MOU aimed at combatting unwanted robocalls signed by the FCC and the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications, and a Florida federal district court ruling on the Florida Telephone Solicitation Act.

Our TCPA newsletter covers an FCC Public Notice seeking comment on obligations relating to the FCC’s caller ID authentication rules and the FCC’s MOU with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to combat robocalling. It also reviews an Eleventh Circuit holding that every class member must have standing in order for plaintiffs to recover individual damages in a TCPA class action.

The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau (WCB) issued a Public Notice seeking comment on two recurring obligations relating to the FCC’s caller ID authentication rules, and the FCC and Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at combatting unlawful robocalling.