FCC Takes Next Steps on STIR/SHAKEN Implementation and Combatting Illegal Robocalls

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released its next initiative “to continue the FCC’s work to implement the TRACED Act and promote the deployment of caller ID authentication technology” (i.e., STIR/SHAKEN). This next step would “adopt rules implementing many of the proposals [the agency] made in the First Caller ID Authentication Report and Order and Further Notice. Among other things, [the proposal would] adopt rules governing intermediate providers and caller ID authentication in non-IP networks, we implement the exceptions and extensions established by the TRACED Act, and we prohibit line-item charges for caller ID authentication.”

In a proposed Second Report and Order circulated on September 9, 2020, Chairman Ajit Pai is asking his fellow Commissioners to approve the following additional requirements to combat illegal robocalls:

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