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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 August 21, 2026
Joshua Tabler, a telecom field engineer in Camas, Washington, filed a Section 1.401 petition on Wednesday asking the Commission to create a “Protected IP Communications” service category for fire alarm and elevator emergency cir…
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Sector Watch — Week ending August 21, 2026
The OpenID Foundation answered Australia’s verifiable-credentials consultation on August 19 with a list of specifications and a list of test suites. It names the standards it wants under the Australian Government Digital ID System — O…
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Regulatory Watch — Week ending August 14, 2026
Comments on the KYUP FNPRM closed Monday, and two dozen of them hit WC 17-97 and CG 17-59 over 48 hours. The FNPRM (FCC 26-32, released May 21) proposed three things: a prescriptive know-your-upstream-provider checklist binding every voice …
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Sector Watch — Week ending August 14, 2026
RFC 10006 was published this week and turns a SIP service provider’s STIR posture into a field an enterprise can fetch. The document defines a capability set an enterprise telephony network retrieves from its provider over HTTPS, and …
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Regulatory Watch — Week ending August 7, 2026
Comments closed Tuesday in the FCC’s high-cost proceeding. The Fifth Circuit heard argument Wednesday on the constitutionality of the Universal Service Fund. The Commission opened a rulemaking Thursday on how USAC is run. The first co…
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Sector Watch — Week ending August 7, 2026
The most useful thing this week is that two of the most widely selected specifications in digital identity finally got a test attached to them. The OpenID Foundation completed the conformance test suites for OpenID4VP and OpenID4VCI under t…
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Regulatory Watch — Week ending July 31, 2026
The KYC reply record closed Monday, and everyone who matters showed up on the deadline. What came in wasn’t a chorus — it was a three-cornered fight. The big carriers and their trade groups told the Commission to keep Know-Your-Custom…
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Sector Watch — Week ending July 31, 2026
The most useful thing this week is the OpenID Foundation moving its CAEP Interoperability Profile into final-specification review — a profile whose entire job is to pin down what two implementations of the Shared Signals Framework must agre…
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Regulatory Watch — Week ending July 24, 2026
The robocall-mitigation trilogy got its third leg this week. On Wednesday the Commission released a Further Notice aimed squarely at the Robocall Mitigation Database, and it landed on the same day the reply-comment window closed on the Know…
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Sector Watch — Week ending July 24, 2026
The most useful thing this week is a small change in what an identity provider hands over. The OpenID Foundation moved its ephemeral subject identifier profile into final review — a way for a provider to confirm that somebody is authenticat…
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Regulatory Watch — Week ending July 17, 2026
The Commission spent this week on the two transitions that actually reshape the voice network — the move off legacy TDM interconnection, and the tightening of who gets to be a trusted participant in what replaces it. The Wireline Competitio…
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Sector Watch — Week ending July 17, 2026
Agent identity moved in three venues in nine days, and none of them tried to invent a new credential. The ITU stood up a Focus Group under SG17, the OpenID Foundation opened an interop event built entirely on existing OAuth drafts, and Entr…
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Regulatory Watch — Week ending July 10, 2026
The reply round on the Commission’s numbering-and-robocalls NPRM closed Tuesday, and the record came back with a striking amount of agreement — not on what to do, but on what not to do. Nearly every serious filer told the Commission t…
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Regulatory Watch — Week ending July 3, 2026
Two threads ran through the short holiday week, and they point in opposite directions. On June 29 the industry filed its reply comments against the Commission’s call-center onshoring NPRM and told the FCC, more or less in unison, that…
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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…