DOJ Urges FCC to Hold VoIP Providers to Caller ID Spoofing Rules

摘要

DOJ said the FCC should use ancillary authority under the Telecom Act to apply to VoIP nproviders rules against what's known as caller-ID spoofing. “Although the Commission has nnot classified interconnected VoIP service as a telecommunications service for the general npurposes of Title II, it has previously used its ancillary authority ... to extend many common ncarrier obligations to VoIP providers,” said Jason Weinstein, deputy assistant attorney general nof the criminal division, in a department filing with the FCC.