Draft Call-Blocking Item Lays Out Liability Safe Harbors

摘要

The draft third report and order, order on reconsideration, and fourth further notice of proposed rulemaking that FCC Chairman Ajit Pai plans to ask his fellow Commissioners to approve at their July 16 meeting would grant terminating voice service providers various safe harbors for activities aimed at stopped unwanted and illegal calls. "These steps both respond to voice service providers that seek assurance that their good-faith blocking will not result in liability if they inadvertently block wanted calls and implement the call blocking provisions of the TRACED Act. At the same time, we adopt safeguards against erroneous blocking, including measures to ensure such blocking is quickly remedied. All these steps continue our work to protect consumers from illegal and unwanted calls and complement our work on caller ID authentication implementation," says the text of the draft item in CC docket 17-59 released June 25 along with the tentative agenda for the meeting (see separate stories).