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FCC Announces Exercise of the Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS)

By Mark Malonzo|2024-05-28T15:49:59-05:00May 28th, 2024|Legal News|

The FCC released a Public Notice today announcing a June 10-12 exercise of the Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS). Communications providers, including broadcast, wireless, satellite, broadband, and wireline providers, interested in participating must register by June 3. DIRS is the FCC online system through which providers report information on the operational status of communications assets...… Continue Reading

Kansas Corporation Commission Rules on Interconnection and Porting Obligations Applicable to VoIP Services

By Tony Lee|2021-03-26T11:15:31-05:00March 26th, 2021|Legal News|

On March 23, 2021, the Kansas Corporation Commission (“KCC”) issued a long-awaited Order resolving jurisdictional and other issues surrounding interconnection and porting issues between Voice over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) providers and rural local exchange carriers (“LECs”) in Kansas. VoIP providers and rural LECs in Kansas have had a long‑running and contentious battle regarding number porting...… Continue Reading

STIR/SHAKEN – Dial Another Day

By Seth Williams|2020-04-07T10:59:02-05:00April 7th, 2020|Legal News|

With the new James Bond film delayed until the end of the year, the FCC has something to tide everyone over: STIR/SHAKEN – the SIP-based caller ID authentication process. Last year, Congress passed the Traced Act, which required the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) to require caller ID authentication within 18 months of the Traced Act’s...… Continue Reading

Bipartisan TRACED Act Seeks to Reduce Robocalls

By Seth Williams|2018-11-29T15:19:43-06:00November 29th, 2018|Legal News|

Before Thanksgiving, a bipartisan group of Senators introduced legislation aimed at decreasing the number of unwanted robocalls. The TRACED Act would expand FCC authority under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”), empower the FCC to mandate call authentication rules for voice service providers to cut down on caller ID spoofing, and create an interagency working...… Continue Reading

FCC Proposes to Reaffirm its Limitations on the Authority of Local Cable Franchise Authorities

By Tom Dougherty|2018-09-17T13:39:33-05:00September 17th, 2018|Legal News|

The FCC will vote this month on whether to consider adopting a set of rulings that would limit the authority of cable local franchise authorities (LFAs) in the franchising and regulation of cable systems in response to a recent court case that threatens to expand LFA authority over cable systems and their diverse service offerings....… Continue Reading

Multi-Line Telephone Systems and Enterprise Communications Systems; Kari’s Law and Other 911-Related Developments

By Mark DeSantis and Cheng-yi Liu|2018-04-23T13:46:49-05:00April 23rd, 2018|Legal News|

Earlier this year, the President signed into federal law the Kari’s Law Act of 2017, a measure aimed at ensuring multi-line telephone systems (MLTS) users can directly access emergency personnel by dialing 911 without first dialing an access code. As you’ve probably observed, the passage of this new federal law was somewhat bittersweet, as the...… Continue Reading

FCC Annual CPNI Certifications Are Back After One Year Off – Due March 1

By FHH Law|2018-02-08T15:47:17-06:00February 8th, 2018|Legal News|

It’s that time of year again! (Well, again after a one-year hiatus, that is.) Time for our annual reminder that the annual customer proprietary network information (CPNI) certifications are due by March 1 for most (but not necessarily all) telecommunications carriers and interconnected VoIP providers. CPNI includes a variety of sensitive customer data such as,...… Continue Reading

Update: Last of the New E911 Rules Now in Effect

By FHH Law|2015-08-02T11:56:27-05:00August 2nd, 2015|Legal News|

Back in February the FCC released its new E911 standards designed to improve E911 location capability. As we reported in March, most of those new standards were to take effect in April … except for a small handful that happened to be “information collections” and thus subject to the hilariously named Paperwork Reduction Act. Thanks … Continue Reading

Update: Most, But Not All, New E911 Rules Set to Take Effect in April

By FHH Law|2015-03-04T10:22:44-06:00March 4th, 2015|Legal News|

As we reported last month, the Commission has adopted a new set of E911 standards designed to improve E911 location capability. The FCC’s Fourth Report and Order setting forth those standards has now been published in the Federal Register. As a r...