Mississippi Charges Telemarketing Companies with Violating No-Call Law

The Mississippi PSC announced that it has charged eight companies with violating the state’s no-call law.  The PSC’s investigation found that these particular companies made 334 illegal calls to Mississippians.  Should these entities be found to have violated the No-Call law, they are subject to a $5,000 per call fine; totaling $1,670,000.

“I’ve asked our staff to leave no stone unturned. We have doubled our efforts to stop these criminals. These companies will get the message that we mean business. We will stop these predatory calls on Mississippians,” said Commissioner Presley.

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 The Regulatory Mix Today:  Mississippi Charges Telemarketing Companies with Violating No-Call Law,  FCC Announces Comment Dates in BDS Remand and UNE Forbearance Proceedings

FCC Announces Comment Dates in BDS Remand and UNE Forbearance Proceedings

The Federal Communications Commission announced the date for filing additional comments in its business data services (BDS) and UNE Forbearance proceedings.  Comments are due May 9, 2019; reply comments are due May 16, 2019.  In connection with these comments, the FCC reopened the secure data enclave holding the confidential and highly confidential data filed in response to the FCC’s 2015 BDS data collection (confidential BDS data) as of April 25, 2019.  Parties seeking to access the confidential data for purposes of filing comments must follow the procedures set forth in the Protective Order adopted for each proceeding, including the filing of an Acknowledgement of Confidentiality.  Inteserra Briefing Service subscribers see Briefing dated 4/25/19.

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