CommLaw Monitor
FCC Proposes $25,000 Fine for Failure to Respond to Investigation
On Friday, the FCC proposed a $25,000 fine against a carrier that failed to respond to a Commission investigation. In the NAL, the Enforcement Bureau stated that Net One International had failed to respond to a letter…
FCC Proposes Another $5 Million Prepaid Card Fine
Yesterday, the FCC proposed another $5 million fine for insufficient disclosures on prepaid calling cards. This action is best understood as an echo to the FCC's action in September, when it proposed four similar $5…
FCC Proposes $5 Million Fines Against Multiple Prepaid Card Providers
We noted in April 2010 that the FCC was investigating prepaid calling card provider disclosures . We suspected that action was likely when we saw four notices of apparent liability against unidentified companies appear…
Prepaid Card Provider Settles Payphone Compensation NAL
For a while, failure to pay per-call compensation to payphone owners was as much of an enforcement focus as is failure to pay the Universal Service Fund today. The FCC resolved one of its legacy cases this week,…
FCC Releases Five More CPNI Forfeiture Orders
The Commission continues to clear the decks from its 2009 Omnibus CPNI NAL. Apparently having exhausted all of the cases warranting revocation of the NAL and meriting a consent decree, the Enforcement Bureau release…