The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau (EB) has entered into Consent Decrees with nine companies to resolve investigations into whether such entities failed to timely file monthly reports of permanently disconnected phone numbers to the Commission’s Reassigned Numbers Database (RND or Database) administrator (Database Administrator). The Database allows individuals to avoid placing calls to numbers previously assigned to a subscriber who provided consent for particular calls, but that (after the provision of such consent) were disconnected and reassigned to a new non-consenting subscriber. Reporting carriers are required to inform the Database Administrator of subscriber disconnections on a monthly basis. The EB has settled with the following entities: (1) Salsgiver Telecom, Inc.; (2) Puerto Rico Telephone Company, Inc. d/b/a Claro Puerto Rico; (3) Business Automation Technologies, Inc. d/b/a Data Network Solutions; (4) Fort Mojave Telecommunications, Inc.; (5) Integrated Path Communications, LLC; (6) Palo Cooperative Telephone Association d/b/a Palo Communications; (7) Point Broadband Fiber Holding, LLC d/b/a Point Broadband; (8) Stratford Mutual Telephone Company; and (9) Swayzee Telphone Company, Inc. d/b/a Swayzee Communications Corp. FiberHawk. Each entity must submit a compliance plan and a voluntary contribution.
The FCC also issued an Order canceling a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (NAL) issued to Communications Plus, Inc. (Communications Plus) for apparently failing to provide information on a timely basis about telephone number disconnections to the Database Administrator. The Commission found that Communications Plus did report the disconnections through an affiliate, and therefore no violation of the Commission’s rules occurred.
