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The Telecom Digest for May 14, 2014
Volume 33 : Issue 82 : "text" Format
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FCC Gives Robocallers 2.9 Million Reasons to Lawyer Up Ahead of Time (Neal McLain)
Wheeler to retool proposed Net Neutrality rules (Neal McLain)

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Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 18:46:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Neal McLain <nmclain.remove-this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: FCC Gives Robocallers 2.9 Million Reasons to Lawyer Up Ahead of  Time 
Message-ID: <7cc2dc8a-8b96-42f2-96b2-8c2b93842770@googlegroups.com>

By Jon Markman, CommLawBlog, May 12, 2014 

Ignore the FCCs warnings at your financial peril.

Telemarketing is a fact of modern life, mainly because it can be 
a very efficient and effective way to communicate a message 
(commercial, political, etc.) to a huge audience. But that 
doesn't mean that the audience necessarily likes to receive 
telemarketed messages: many, perhaps most, consumers don't. 
That's probably even truer when it comes to "robocalls" (i.e., 
calls that are dialed automatically or play prerecorded 
messages), a type of unsolicited marketing that involves no 
actual human interaction, at least on the robocallers end. And 
it's probably truer still when the robocall is directed to a cell 
phone or mobile device where the recipient can end up paying for 
the minutes.

Responding to public sentiment more than two decades ago, 
Congress (in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)) banned 
the use of automatic calling (both live and prerecorded) to 
mobile devices except in emergency situations or when the company 
has the express written consent of the recipient of the call. In 
contrast to landline numbers, mobile phone subscribers don't have 
to put their numbers on the Governments Do-Not-Call list to get 
this protection.
 
Continued:

http://www.commlawblog.com/2014/05/articles/enforcement-activities-fines-f/fcc-gives-robocallers-29-million-reasons-to-lawyer-up-ahead-of-time/index.html

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http://tinyurl.com/mjbbbrt

Neal McLain




Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 19:13:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Neal McLain <nmclain.remove-this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Wheeler to retool proposed Net Neutrality rules 
Message-ID: <1c4a5aba-8a5d-44a8-842f-9628a4c61c8c@googlegroups.com>

By K.C. Neel, FierceCable, May 12, 2014

Third Open Internet revision goes over like a lead balloon with 
industry players.

Amid widespread complaints from industry executives as well as 
some members of Congress, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is going back 
to the drawing board to revise proposed rules for regulating 
broadband access to the Internet. He promised the commission 
won't allow companies to create fast and slow lanes to segregate 
Web traffic.

Wheeler had proposed last month banning broadband providers from 
blocking or slowing down websites, but allowing them to strike 
deals in which companies could pay them for faster delivery of 
Web content to customers. But the pitch drew criticism from the 
tech sector, including Google and Netflix, both of which 
complained the new rules would segregate the Internet into fast
and slow lanes.

Wheeler is sticking to his original approach, but is including 
language that would make clear the FCC will carefully scrutinize 
the deals to make sure broadband providers don't unfairly put 
non-paying companies' content at a disadvantage.

Continued:

http://www.fiercecable.com/story/wheeler-retool-proposed-net-neutrality-rules/2014-05-12?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal

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http://tinyurl.com/nxb36nw

Neal McLain






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