Call Blocking Rules Likely Face Legal Challenge, Womble Bond Lawyers Say
Womble Bond lawyers Artin Betpera and David Carter expect new FCC call blocking rules (see 1906060056) may come with unintended consequences. The declaratory ruling “deviates from decades of precedent by allowing carriers to block telecommunications service traffic without a consumer…
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request,” they blogged: “As well-intentioned as the FCC’s ruling might be, its departure from long-standing precedent may lead to the rule being challenged in court.” The rules are also open ended, they said. “It is difficult to otherwise predict exactly how these new rules will play out, and whether carriers will choose to implement default call blocking in the first instance,” they said: “Comments from industry and other private stakeholders that preceded the ruling highlight the substantial risks of false-positives with existing call blocking technology.”