CommLaw Monitor
Prepaid Card Provider Settles Payphone Compensation NAL
For a while, failure to pay per-call compensation to payphone owners was as much of an enforcement focus as is failure to pay the Universal Service Fund today. The FCC resolved one of its legacy cases this week,…
FCC Adopts Anti-Spoofing Rules Implementing Truth In Caller ID Act
Implementing the Truth in Caller ID Act passed last December, the FCC adopted rules prohibiting the fraudulent manipulation of caller ID information. These so-called anti-"spoofing" rules track the statutory language…
FCC Reforms Lifeline Program to Prevent Duplicative Subsidies
On June 17, 2011, the FCC adopted a Report and Order seeking to prevent waste and abuse by prohibiting duplicative Lifeline program subsidies for low-income consumers already receiving support. The proceeding was…
FCC Releases Five More CPNI Forfeiture Orders
The Commission continues to clear the decks from its 2009 Omnibus CPNI NAL. Apparently having exhausted all of the cases warranting revocation of the NAL and meriting a consent decree, the Enforcement Bureau release…
Comment Dates Set for Proposed Expansion of Outage Reporting Rules to VoIP Services
Last month, we noted that the FCC is proposing to expand outage reporting obligations to interconnected VoIP providers, broadband Internet access providers and to Internet backbone providers. The new rules propose…