---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190418023631.GA30756@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 02:36:31 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Telecom and VoIP Providers: Annual FCC Form 499-A Worksheet And CVAA Accessibility Certifications Due April 1, 2019 Telecom and VoIP Providers: Annual FCC Form 499-A Worksheet And CVAA Accessibility Certifications Due April 1, 2019 Article by Alexandrea (Alex) Simser Telecommunications providers are subject to a panoply of federal regulations and reporting requirements under the Communications Act, including regulation and reporting regarding privacy and security, contributions for the support of universal access to telecommunications services, and accessibility for disabled persons. Two of those reporting requirements have filing deadlines on Monday, April 1st. http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=796920&email_access=on -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ***** Moderator's Note ***** I subscribe to an email mailing list that sends summaries of articles written by various law firms or lawyers. I don't know why, but this story was in the email I received on April 16. Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190418021750.GA30696@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 02:17:50 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Have You Been Sued By Manuel Hiraldo? By David O. Klein In recent years, lawsuits alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA") have become among the most frequently filed lawsuits in the federal courts. The number of TCPA cases filed in 2018 was staggering - 4,392. The exposure to potential liability in such lawsuits can threaten to jeopardize the financial viability of businesses, particularly when the lawsuits are filed as class actions. In addition, the TCPA carries the additional exposure to potential personal liability. Statutory penalties may be imposed in an amount of either $500.00 per call or text, or $1500.00 if the violation is deemed willful. Often, plaintiffs will seek to recover for two violations arising from a single telephone call/text: (i) based on a phone call or text message placed through an auto-dialer without their consent; and (ii) because they received the phone call or text message despite listing their phone numbers on the national Do Not Call registry. http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=798234&email_access=on -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <EsOdnXwahIyl7CXBnZ2dnUU7-LnNnZ2d@giganews.com> Date: 18 Apr 2019 07:44:40 -0500 From: "Doug McIntyre" <merlyn@dork.geeks.org> Subject: Re: Flood of scam "computer maintenance" calls HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> writes: >I've received a flood of scam telephone calls. They vary, .... >Here's a question: What carriers are supporting the >toll-free lines? Seems like they could do a better job >of controlling who they deal with. You are assuming the Caller ID isn't spoofed. My work phone gets a ton of the tech-support 800 calls, while my cell phone usually gets all the neighbor spoofed CID calls. At this point, I'd think the potential victims would be saturated and it wouldn't be worth attempting any longer, but apparently there is still money to be found there. --- Doug McIntyre doug@themcintyres.us ***** Moderator's Note ***** My attitude on spam calls is unchanged: those who get them will be most effective at stopping them if they take one for the team, and pay it forward by wasting as much of the salesman's time as possible. The time of the call-takers is payed for with REAL MONEY, and wasting it is the most reliable way of getting your phone number on the "Hostile Lead" lists that the marketeers sell each other. I know this for a fact: it's what I've been doing for years, and I get less than one spoofed call per week. If everyone who gets a spoofed call did it, that entire industry would be out of business within a year. Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Fri, 19 Apr 2019