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Table of Contents:
 CTIA Highlights Mobile Payments and Banking Services
Editorial: Other Highlights At the Show
Editorial: Wireless Overboard
FCC Proposes CPNI Fines
CTIA Launches CSC Auditing and Monitoring Initiative
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FCC Proposes CPNI Fines
This week the Federal Communications Commission proposed separate fines of $100,000 against several telecom providers for violating rules regarding protection of customer proprietary network information (CPNI). The FCC determined that CTC Communications, Eastbrooke Cellular and Amp’d Mobile failed to provide a required annual certificate from a corporate executive certifying from personal knowledge that the company’s operating procedures comply with the commission’s rules for protecting and using CPNI.
The operators had all received FCC letters of inquiry into their various compliance efforts. All the operators responded, but the FCC found that their responses either did not meet FCC guidelines in terms of CPNI protections or that the companies were not specific enough about their compliance efforts.
The companies still have 30 days to respond in order to reduce or possibly avoid the fines. None of them were accused of pretexting violations. The FCC has been busy of late doling out these types of fines, most likely in reaction to the high level of public attention to illegal pretexting practices. One of the companies in this recent batch of announcements hadn’t filed a certificate in five years.
Comments and feedback welcome, please email Jill Morgan at jmorgan@billingworld.com.
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