A Brief History of the Brief (but Voluminous) History of the FCC’s Efforts to Eliminate Illegal and Unwanted Robocalls and Robotexts

This CLE will discuss the FCC and Congress’ efforts to adopt rules and regulations for calling parties and voice service providers to create accountability and liability for facilitating unlawful and  unwanted phone calls and text messages. We will discuss what’s working, what may not be working and what still needs to be done to address America’s #1 nuisance. We will discuss how the FCC is working with the states and industry to crack down on bad actors. We will also discuss steps voice and text service providers are taking to give customers more control and information to determine which calls to answer and prevent potentially illegal calls and texts from reaching consumers. And we will address why some calling parties are not happy with those carrier controls.

Key topics to be discussed:

• Defining the problem of illegal and unwanted calls and texts
• The TRACED Act
• The FCC’s orders and rules implementing the TRACED Act
• What’s working and what still needs to be done

Date / Time: January 31, 2024

• 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Eastern
• 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Central
• 10:00 am – 11:00 am Mountain
• 9:00 am – 10:00 am Pacific

Closed-captioning available