Technology, Communications & Media

On September 3, 2020, the FCC released a Public Notice providing additional guidance to prospective applicants who may wish to seek funding under the FCC’s Connected Care Pilot Program for connected care services.  As we previously reported, that program will make $100 million available over three years to help defray health care providers’ costs of providing connected care services, with a particular emphasis on supporting those services for low-income Americans and veterans.

Read about a clarification of the FCC’s ruling that that TCPA’s emergency purposes exception applies to communications about the COVID-19 pandemic and a petition seeking reconsideration of the P2P Alliance ruling.

Read about the 6th Circuit's decision to side with the 9th and 2nd Circuits in holding that devices that merely store and dial telephone numbers are automatic telephone dialing systems under the TCPA.

Mintz’s August TCPA Digest covers the 6th Circuit's holding on the definition of an ATDS under the TCPA and the FCC’s clarification of its ruling that TCPA’s emergency purposes exception applies to communications about COVID-19.

The newsletter covers a notable TCPA fax litigation ruling and the FCC’s adoption of two safe harbors protecting voice service providers from liability when they take reasonable measures to block unwanted robocalls

The newsletter covers a notable TCPA fax litigation ruling and the FCC’s adoption of two safe harbors protecting voice service providers from liability when they take reasonable measures to block unwanted robocalls

The newsletter covers a notable TCPA fax litigation ruling and the FCC’s adoption of two safe harbors protecting voice service providers from liability when they take reasonable measures to block unwanted robocalls

This newsletter covers the Ninth Circuit’s N.L. v. Credit One Bank ruling and the FCC’s continuing steps to implement portions of the TRACED Act and extend protections against illegal and unwanted robocalls.

This newsletter covers the Ninth Circuit’s N.L. v. Credit One Bank ruling and the FCC’s continuing steps to implement portions of the TRACED Act and extend protections against illegal and unwanted robocalls.

This newsletter covers the Ninth Circuit’s N.L. v. Credit One Bank ruling and the FCC’s continuing steps to implement portions of the TRACED Act and extend protections against illegal and unwanted robocalls.

This article outlines the requirements and procedures for the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I auction (Auction 904), which will make up to $16B in federal funds available to support high-speed broadband and voice services in rural America.

Mintz’s May TCPA Digest covers the Supreme Court oral argument in Barr v. AAPC on the TCPA’s autodialer restriction and the FCC’s implementation of the TRACED Act.

Read about the Supreme Court’s discussion in Barr v. AAPC on whether to strike down the TCPA’s autodialer restriction or the statute’s government-debt exception.