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Recurring reads on what's moving across telecom, identity, trust, and fraud — newest first.
A living dashboard — fraud volume, who's affected, monetary impact, and the evidence on whether defenses are moving the numbers.
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Regulatory Watch — Week ending June 26, 2026
The comment deadline on the Enhancing Know-Your-Customer Requirements FNPRM landed Thursday, and the entire identity-and-robocall ecosystem filed at once — banks, carriers, identity vendors, competitive providers, domestic-violence coalitio…
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Regulatory Watch — Week ending June 19, 2026
The week’s most useful filing came from a vendor that took no position on the question everyone else is fighting about. While the Enhancing Know-Your-Customer docket filled with consumers arguing about whether originating providers sh…
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Regulatory Watch — Week ending June 12, 2026
A week ago the numbering NPRM was a footnote — three early comments waiting on a deadline. On Monday the deadline arrived and the proceeding became the whole front page. More than thirty comments landed in the WC 26-49 cluster (cross-listed…
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Regulatory Watch — Week ending June 5, 2026
The June 2 comment deadline on the onshoring NPRM did what deadlines do: it emptied the industry’s drawers all at once. Thirty-four comments landed in the CG 26-52 cluster, and the trade associations arrived in close formation — CTIA,…
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Regulatory Watch — Week ending May 29, 2026
Memorial Day shortened the week, but Tuesday more than made up for it. The Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau started the KYUP comment clock with DA‑26‑523 at exactly the same hour Public Safety pushed an updated Covered List out the …
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Regulatory Watch — Week ending May 22, 2026
Two big items dropped on the same day. On Wednesday, May 20, the Commission adopted — and released Thursday — the Know-Your-Upstream-Provider Further NPRM (FCC-26-32), the STIR/SHAKEN overhaul that the ex parte traffic had been telegraphing…
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Regulatory Watch — Week ending May 15, 2026
A quiet week, but a loaded one — most of the docket activity was positioning ahead of the May 20 open meeting, where the Call Authentication Further NPRM (the know-your-upstream-provider item, FCC-CIRC2605-01) is teed up for a vote. The mos…
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Regulatory Watch — Week ending May 8, 2026
A week of two storylines, not unrelated. On the robocall side, the Commission’s Know-Your-Upstream-Provider FNPRM (FCC-CIRC2605-01) is on the May open meeting agenda, and the post–April 24 sunshine NPRM cycle started producing the sub…