Topic
Call Blocking
15 published works
The Attorney Marketing Center
Screening calls
By David Ward
People call with a question, about your services or about their case. Or they call to sell you something. Everyone wants to speak to you immediately, and if they leave…
Rural Spectrum Scanner
FCC Takes Measures to Improve Call Blocking Regime
The FCC has adopted an Order on Reconsideration, a Sixth Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, and a Waiver Order to reconsider, clarify, seek comment on, and waive certain aspects of…
CommLaw Monitor
FCC Previews a Jam-Packed July Open Meeting with National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, Call Blocking, and Supply Chain Items Leading the Agenda
By Kelley Drye
The FCC is moving full steam ahead this summer with a jam-packed agenda for its next open meeting, scheduled for July 16, 2020. Headlining the meeting is the creation of…
CommLaw Monitor
New Podcast: Call Blocking and Call Authentication
By Kelley Drye
Full Spectrum’s “Inside the TCPA” offers a deeper focus on TCPA issues and petitions pending before the FCC. Each episode tackles a single TCPA topic or petition that is in…
Consumer Finance Monitor
FCC votes to approve call blocking declaratory ruling and adopts NPRM on caller ID authentication
By Daniel JT McKenna, John L. Culhane, Jr.
The FCC announced that it has approved the declaratory ruling previously circulated by Chairman Pai that would allow voice service providers to start offering default call-blocking programs that are based…
Consumer Finance Monitor
FCC’s call blocking plans could create problems for collections
By Daniel JT McKenna, John L. Culhane, Jr.
Plans announced on May 15 by the FCC to empower voice service providers to offer more aggressive call-blocking programs could create significant problems for creditors and debt collectors. In addition…
CommLaw Monitor
Podcast – Inside the TCPA: Call Blocking
By Kelley Drye
Full Spectrum's “Inside the TCPA” podcast series offers a deeper focus on TCPA issues and petitions pending before the FCC. Each episode tackles a single TCPA topic or petition that…
CommLaw Monitor
FCC Authorizes Use of Call Blocking Technologies by Telephone Service Providers to Block Spoofed Calls
By Kelley Drye
On September 30th, the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) released a brief Public Notice in which it clarified that telephone service providers…
Media & Privacy Risk Report
FCC Declines to Block Call-Blocking Technology (FCC TCPA Order Report Part 9 of 11)
By Blaine C. Kimrey, Lisa M. Simonetti, Bryan K. Clark
In the July 10, 2015 FCC Order regarding the TCPA (the “Order”), the FCC didn’t just sharpen the litigation “sword” that consumers can use against telemarketers—it also gave them a…
CommLaw Monitor
FCC Extends Deadline for Call-Blocking Technology Comments
By Kelley Drye
On December 17, 2014, the FCC’s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau (“CGB”) released an order extending the deadline to January 23, 2015 for interested parties to file comments in response to a…