If you thought the fourth quarter of the Chiefs and Bills playoff game was exciting, the Eleventh Circuit on January 24 granted a last-minute victory to industry in vacating certain portions of the FCC’s December 2023 Report and...

With a unanimous vote on March 14, 2024, the Federal Communication Commission (“FCC”) adopted its proposed order to launch a voluntary cybersecurity labeling program (“Program”) for Internet-connected smart devices. As discussed in our August 2023 blog, this cybersecurity labeling Program...

The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) voted today to adopt updated breach notification rules for telecommunications and interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) service providers (together, “carriers”), and telecommunications relay service (“TRS”) providers. Before this week, the FCC...

The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) announced its tentative agenda for its November 15 meeting, which includes the proposed Order to protect consumers from two increasingly common cybercriminal techniques: SIM swapping and number porting.  SIM Swapping & Number...

Robocalls: consumers hate them, plaintiffs’ lawyers love them, and near-sentient robots stop them so effectively that spam calls are a thing of the past. Wait, what?  The FCC is expected to vote later this month to kick-off...

In recent months, regulators and lawmakers have announced steps aimed at curtailing allegedly misleading fee practices, including junk fees or drip pricing. Both “junk fees” and “drip pricing” involve charging fees that companies fail to...

Arguably, one of the most crucial Internet routing protocols, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), is one of the least secure, but regulators around the globe—including the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) here in the U.S.—are increasing their...

On July 12, the Senate Commerce Committee voted to advance the nomination of Anna Gomez to join the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”). If the full Senate votes to confirm her in September, Gomez will finally...

On July 20, 2023, major changes take effect in the Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC”) Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) rules. These changes are years in the making (the Order was released in December 2020!), but long...

Following the D.C. Circuit’s narrowing of the FCC’s broad definition of an autodialer in its 2015 Omnibus TCPA Declaratory Ruling and Order (“Omnibus Order”), the Third Circuit has ruled that a dialing system must have...