FCC & Compliance
The FCC authorization a carrier needs to provide interstate or international telecommunications service — and which the FCC can revoke.
Section 214 of the Communications Act governs the authority to operate. In recent years the FCC has begun initiating revocation proceedings against providers that repeatedly carry illegal robocall traffic or fail to cooperate with traceback.
Revocation is the most severe remedy available short of criminal referral, because it ends the ability to operate lawfully at all.
Traceback non-cooperation and repeated illegal traffic are the two behaviours most likely to escalate from a warning letter to a Section 214 proceeding.
The FCC registry where every voice service provider must file a certification describing its robocall mitigation program.
The industry process of following a suspicious call hop by hop back through each carrier until the originating provider and its customer are identified.
Regulatory protection from liability for providers that block or mitigate calls in good faith using reasonable analytics and documented processes.
SipShield scores live SIP traffic with patented AI so the controls behind this term run automatically — and leave the audit trail regulators expect.