CommLaw Monitor
Verizon Agrees to Pay $7.4 Million to Resolve CPNI Investigation
On September 3, 2014, Verizon agreed to pay $7.4 million to resolve an investigation into possible misuse of customers’ personal information in a number of tailored marketing campaigns. Prompted by a self-disclosure…
FCC Maintains Suspension of U.S. Carrier Payments on U.S.-Tonga Route
Earlier this week, the Federal Communications Commission released an order affirming the International Bureau’s 2009 order directing all U.S. facilities-based carriers within the FCC’s jurisdiction to stop payments to…
Verizon and Verizon Wireless Pay $200,000 to Settle Outage Reporting Investigations
Randy Sifers contributed to this blog post. On March 14, 2012, the FCC released two consent decrees settling investigations into Verizon’s and Verizon Wireless’s outage reporting practices. Collectively, the two…
FCC Takes No Action Against Verizon 911 Outage; Maryland Still Investigating
Last year, we posted a couple of items about outages in Verizon's 911 call completion systems, and investigations by the FCC and the Maryland PSC. We thought now would be a good time for an update on those…
Investigations into Verizon 911 Outages Moving Forward
It has been a month and a half since we noted that the FCC and Maryland PSC were investigating an incident in which Verizon experienced outages in processing wireless 911 calls to two Maryland counties. See below for a…