On October 16, the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau released 20 Orders to initiate the removal of noncompliant voice service and gateway providers from the Robocall Mitigation Database and reinstated Global UC Inc.’s certification in the RMD, which included entering into a Compliance Plan with the company.

The FCC adopted rules adding new obligations for interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol service providers that obtain numbers for their customers directly from a numbering administrator and is seeking comment on additional proposals involving direct access.

The FCC is increasing fees to access its DNC Registry as of October 1, the FCC re-selected a USTelecom-led industry group as its Registered Traceback Consortium, and the FCC set a new record for a robocall and spoofing fine.

In this month’s Telephone and Texting Compliance News, we report on upcoming hikes to the FTC’s National Do Not Call Registry access fees, the FCC’s record fine of nearly $300 million for robocalling and spoofing, and the FCC’s re-selection of a USTelecom-led industry group as its Registered Traceback Consortium.

In this month’s Telephone and Texting Compliance News, we cover FCC deadlines for new voice service provider requirements, pending federal legislation that would give the FCC the authority to initiate litigation to enforce TCPA violations, the FCC’s participation in a federal and state multiagency initiative to combat scam calls, and a Ninth Circuit decision, which held that a phone line subscriber has standing to bring a TCPA case even though she wasn’t the recipient of the text message at issue.

Read about the Commission’s effective date for requirements adopted in May for all voice service providers, legislation pending in Congress that would give the Commission more enforcement authority, and a joint initiative by the FCC, FTC, and state attorneys general to combat illegal robocalls aimed at committing fraud.

In this month’s Telephone and Texting Compliance News, we cover an FCC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking with proposed rules designed to strengthen consumers’ ability to revoke consent to receive robocalls and robotexts and a Third Circuit decision affirming an arbitration award of more than $286,000 to a credit card company for its fraud counterclaim in a TCPA case.

Read about an FCC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking aimed at strengthening consumers’ ability to revoke consent to receive robocalls and robotexts.

In this month’s Telephone and Texting Compliance News, we cover an FCC Order imposing mitigation and blocking requirements on a broader set of providers, several Commission proposals that would expand requirements to block suspected illegal traffic, an FCC Enforcement Bureau Order requiring voice service providers that are immediately downstream from One Eye LLC to block and cease accepting One Eye’s traffic by June 12, Florida legislation that will reduce the scope and reach of Florida’s Telephone Solicitation Act, and a Florida appellate court ruling limiting the scope of the TCPA.

Read about an FCC Order imposing mitigation and blocking requirements on a broader set of providers and FCC proposals that would expand requirements to block suspected illegal traffic.