Title 47 published on 2012-10-01
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2013-03-26; vol. 78 # 58 - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 78 FR 18246 - Implementation of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012; Establishment of a Public Safety Answering Point Do-Not-Call Registry
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule; announcement of effective date. 47 CFR 1.80 and 64.1202, published at 77 FR 71131, November 29, 2012, and at 78 FR 10099, February 13, 2013, are effective March 26, 2013. 47 CFR Parts 1 and 64 Summary In this document, the Commission announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved, for a period of three years, the information collection associated with the Commission's Implementation of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012; Establishment of a Public Safety Answering Point Do-Not-Call Registry, Report and Order ( Order ). This notice is consistent with the Order, which stated that the Commission would publish a document in the Federal Register announcing OMB approval and the effective date of the requirements. Once the operational details of the PSAP Do-Not-Call Registry have been finalized, the Commission intends to issue a Public Notice noting the date by which affected entities must begin complying with these requirements.
2013-03-07; vol. 78 # 45 - Thursday, March 7, 2013 78 FR 14701 - Misuse of Internet Protocol (IP) Captioned Telephone Service; Telecommunications Relay Services and Speech-to-Speech Services for Individuals With Hearing and Speech Disabilities
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Interim rule; announcement of effective date. 47 CFR 64.604(c)(9), published at 78 FR 8032, February 5, 2013, is effective from March 7, 2013 through September 3, 2013. 47 CFR Part 64 Summary In this document, the Commission announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved, for a period of six months, the information collection associated with the Commission's Misuse of Internet Protocol (IP) Captioned Telephone Service; Telecommunications Relay Services and Speech-to-Speech Services for Individuals with Hearing and Speech Disabilities, Order ( Order ). This document is consistent with the Order, which stated that the Commission would publish a document in the Federal Register announcing OMB approval and the effective date of the requirements.
2013-02-15; vol. 78 # 32 - Friday, February 15, 2013 78 FR 11109 - International Settlements Policy Reform
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule. Effective March 18, 2013, except for the amendment to § 43.51(d) which contains information collection requirements that have not been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The Commission will publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date of that rule change. 47 CFR Parts 0, 1, 43, 63 and 64 Summary The Commission eliminates the International Settlements Policy (ISP) and applies a modified version to Cuba. The Commission amends its rules and procedures to enhance its ability to respond to foreign carriers' anticompetitive behavior in and timely and effective manner. Eliminating the ISP will enable more market-based arrangements between U.S. and foreign carriers on all U.S.-international routes giving U.S. consumers competitive pricing when they make international calls. The Commission also adopts certain limited measures to improve the Commission's ability to protect U.S. consumers from the effects of anticompetitive conduct by foreign carriers.
2013-02-05; vol. 78 # 24 - Tuesday, February 5, 2013 78 FR 8030 - Misuse of Internet Protocol (IP) Captioned Telephone Service; Telecommunications Relay Services and Speech-to-Speech Services for Individuals With Hearing and Speech Disabilities
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule; interpretation. Effective March 7, 2013. 47 CFR Part 64 Summary In this document, the Commission adopts a final interpretive rule modification to clarify its Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) payment rule to explicitly provide that the Interstate TRS Fund (Fund or TRS Fund) administrator shall not be obligated to pay any request for compensation until it has been established as compensable. The Commission's action is intended preserve the integrity and viability of the TRS Fund by ensuring that obligations are not incurred prior to the Fund administrator or the Commission has determined that requests for payment are compensable. Because this is an interpretive rule modification, it is not subject to notice and comment procedures.
78 FR 8030 - Misuse of Internet Protocol (IP) Captioned Telephone Service; Telecommunications Relay Services and Speech-to-Speech Services for Individuals With Hearing and Speech Disabilities
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Interim rule. Effective February 5, 2013, except the amendments to § 64.604(c)(10) of the Commission's rules which is effective March 7, 2013. and 64.604(c)(9) of the Commission's rules which contain new information collection requirements that have not been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This amendment will become effective upon publication in the Federal Register of a notice announcing the approval of such requirements by the Office of Management and Budget under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The Commission will publish a separate document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date. 47 CFR Part 64 Summary In this document, the Commission adopts interim rules prohibiting all referrals for rewards programs (as described in the synopsis below) and any other form of direct or indirect inducements, financial or otherwise, to subscribe to or use, or encourage subscription to or use of, Internet Protocol Captioned Telephone Service (IP CTS); requiring each IP CTS provider, as a precondition to providing service to new IP CTS users, to register each new IP CTS user, to obtain from the user, as part of the registration process, self-certification that the user has a hearing loss that necessitates IP CTS to communicate in a manner that is functionally equivalent to communication by conventional voice telephone users, and where the consumer accepts IP CTS equipment at a price below $75 from any source other than a governmental program, to also obtain from the user a certification from an independent, third party professional attesting to the same; and requiring IP CTS providers to ensure that equipment and software used in conjunction with their service have a default setting of captions off at the beginning of each call, so that the consumer must take an affirmative step to turn on the captions each time the consumer wishes to use IP CTS. The Commission's action is intended to address certain practices related to the provision and marketing of IP CTS that appear to be contributing to a recent and dramatic spike in reimbursement requests to the Interstate Telecommunications Relay Service Fund (TRS Fund or Fund), of sufficient magnitude to constitute a serious threat to the Fund if not promptly and decisively addressed.
2012-12-26; vol. 77 # 247 - Wednesday, December 26, 2012 77 FR 75894 - Telecommunications Relay Services and Speech-to-Speech Services for Individuals With Hearing and Speech Disabilities; E911 Requirements for IP-Enabled Service Providers
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule. Effective January 25, 2013. 47 CFR Part 64 Summary In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) reconsiders and clarifies certain aspects of the iTRS Toll Free Order in response to a petition for reconsideration and clarification filed by Sorenson Communications, Inc. (Sorenson). The Commission grants Sorenson's Petition and clarifies certain aspects of the user notification requirements and denies the remainder of the Petition relating to the database mapping requirements and establishing a one-year end date for the customer notification requirements.
2012-11-30; vol. 77 # 231 - Friday, November 30, 2012 77 FR 71353 - Empowering Consumers To Prevent and Detect Billing for Unauthorized Charges (“Cramming”); Consumer Information and Disclosure; Truth-in-Billing Format
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule; correction. Effective October 26, 2012. 47 CFR Part 64 Summary In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is correcting a final rule that appeared in the Federal Register of October 26, 2012. The document announces the effective date of rules containing information collection requirements approved by the Office of Management and Budget that were adopted to help consumers prevent and detect the placement of unauthorized charges on their telephone bills, an unlawful and fraudulent practice commonly referred to as “cramming.”
77 FR 71353 - Empowering Consumers To Prevent and Detect Billing for Unauthorized Charges (“Cramming”); Consumer Information and Disclosure; Truth-in-Billing Format
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule; correction. This correction contains modified information collection requirements that have not been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The Commission will publish a separate document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date of this correction. 47 CFR Part 64 Summary In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is correcting a final rule that appeared in the Federal Register of May 24, 2012. This document corrects rules adopted to help consumers prevent and detect the placement of unauthorized charges on their telephone bills, an unlawful and fraudulent practice commonly referred to as “cramming.”
2012-11-29; vol. 77 # 230 - Thursday, November 29, 2012 77 FR 71131 - Implementation of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012; Establishment of a Public Safety Answering Point Do-Not-Call Registry
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule. This final rule contains new information collection requirements that have not been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The Commission will publish a separate document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date of that rule section. 47 CFR Parts 1 and 64 Summary In this document, the Commission adopts rules to create a Do-Not-Call registry for public safety answering points (PSAPs) as required by the “Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012” (Tax Relief Act). Specifically, section 6507 of the Tax Relief Act requires the Commission, among other things, to establish a registry that allows PSAPs to register telephone numbers on a Do-Not-Call list and prohibit the use of automatic dialing equipment to contact those numbers. Therefore, the Commission adopts rules necessary for the creation and ongoing management of the Do-Not-Call registry, including requirements for adding PSAP telephone numbers, granting and tracking access by operators of automatic dialing equipment, and protecting the registry from unauthorized disclosure or dissemination of registered numbers. In addition, the Commission adopts specific monetary penalties for unauthorized disclosure or contact of any numbers on the PSAP registry. These provisions are designed to address concerns about the use automatic dialing equipment which can generate large numbers of phone calls in a short period of time, tie up public safety lines, divert critical responder resources away from emergency services, and impede access by the public to emergency lines.
2012-11-08; vol. 77 # 217 - Thursday, November 8, 2012 77 FR 66935 - Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule; correction. Effective October 16, 2012. 47 CFR Part 64 Summary The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is correcting a final rule that appeared in the Federal Register of October 16, 2012. The document announces the effective date of rules containing information collection requirements approved by the Office of the Management and Budget that were adopted to address unwanted telemarketing calls.
2012-10-26; vol. 77 # 208 - Friday, October 26, 2012 77 FR 65320 - Empowering Consumers To Prevent and Detect Billing for Unauthorized Charges (“Cramming”); Consumer Information and Disclosure; Truth-in-Billing Format
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule; announcement of effective date. The amendments to 47 CFR 64.2401(a)(3) published at 77 FR 30915, May 24, 2012, is effective December 26, 2012, to 47 CFR 64.2401(f), published at 77 FR 30915, May 24, 2012, is effective November 13, 2012 with respect to disclosures at points of sale and on carriers' Web sites, and is effective December 26, 2012 with respect to disclosures on each telephone bill. 47 CFR Part 64 Summary In this document, the Commission announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved, for a period of three years, the information collection associated with the Commission's document Empowering Consumers to Prevent and Detect Billing for Unauthorized Charges (“Cramming”); Consumer Information and Disclosure; Truth-in-Billing Format. This notice is consistent with the Report and Order, which stated that the Commission would publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective dates of those sections.
2012-10-16; vol. 77 # 200 - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 77 FR 63240 - Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule; announcement of effective date. The amendments to 47 CFR 64.1200(a)(2) and (3) published at 77 FR 34233, June 11, 2012, are effective October 16, 2013, 47 CFR 64.1200(a)(7) published at 77 FR 34233, June 11, 2012, is effective November 15, 2012, and 47 CFR 64.1200(b)(3), published at 77 FR 34233, June 11, 2012, is effective January 14, 2013. 47 CFR Part 64 Summary In this document, the Commission announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved, for a period of three years, the information collection associated with the Commission's document Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (Report and Order). This notice is consistent with the Report and Order, which stated that the Commission would publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date of those amendments.
2012-10-04; vol. 77 # 193 - Thursday, October 4, 2012 77 FR 60630 - Structure and Practices of the Video Relay Service Program
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Correcting amendments. Effective October 4, 2012. 47 CFR Part 64 Summary This document contains a correction to the final regulations of the Commission's rules, which were published in the Federal Register on Monday, May 2, 2011, 76 FR 24393. The final regulations address fraud, waste, and abuse in the Video Relay Service (VRS) industry.
