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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 18:21:15 -0400
From: Bill Horne <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: TCPA Tracker - August 2021
by Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
FCC Opens Proceeding to Determine if VoIP Providers Should Have
Additional Anti-Robocall Obligations
On August 6, 2021, the FCC adopted a "Further Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking" -
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-21-94A1.pdf
to consider additional anti-robocall requirements for interconnected
VoIP provider that seek direct access to telephone numbers. Among the
changes, the FCC proposes to require interconnected VoIP provider
seeking access to numbers to "certify that it will use numbering
resources lawfully; will not encourage nor assist and facilitate
illegal robocalls, illegal spoofing, or fraud; and will take
reasonable steps to cease origination, termination, and/or
transmission of illegal robocalls once discovered. "Comments on this
proposal will be due 30 days after publication of the FNPRM in
the/Federal Register/."
https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/telecoms-mobile-cable-communications/1105652/tcpa-tracker--august-2021?email_access=on
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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 18:13:35 -0400
From: Bill Horne <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: FCC Adopts Rules For Private Entities To Report Robocall
Violations
By Christine M. Reilly and A. Paul Heeringa
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) has adopted
new rules to implement thePallone-Thune Telephone Robocall Abuse
Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence (TRACED) Act
<
https://www.manatt.com/insights/newsletters/tcpa-connect/traced-act-set-for-enactment>,
providing guidance on how "private entities" can report robocall
violations.
While the Commission has a well-established process for consumers to
submit complaints about unwanted and suspected illegal robocalls and
spoofed calls (primarily via the FCC's website)=E2=80=94and a process in place
for obtaining information from certain public entities=E2=80=94no formal
mechanism previously existed for private entities to share such
information. The new rules are designed to address this shortfall.
https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/telecoms-mobile-cable-communications/1105206/fcc-adopts-rules-for-private-entities-to-report-robocall-violations?email_access=on
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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 17:44:40 -0400
From: Bill Horne <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: That Linux lawsuit: 20 years later, SCO vs IBM may finally be ending
The SCO vs. IBM lawsuit that was once seen as an existential threat to
Linux became a bad legal joke. Now the suit may finally be put to rest.
Well, some of it anyway.
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Today, many Linux users would be shocked to know that there was once a
lawsuit aimed squarely at Linux's heart: Its intellectual property. Some
people at the time even thought SCO's lawsuit against IBM might end
Linux. They were wrong. But, for years the case dragged its way through
the courts. Now, one part of that case may really and truly be disappearing.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/after-almost-20-years-the-sco-vs-ibm-lawsuit-may-finally-be-ending/
