On 10/21/21 10:57 AM, Sean Donelan wrote:
The multi-million dollar fines announced with great fanfaire by the
Federal Communication Commission are almost never collected. The FCC
doesn't have enforcement authority to collect fines. The FCC usually
withholds license renewals until penalties are paid. If the violator
doesn't have any FCC licenses (or doesn't care), the FCC is powerless.
The FCC refers uncollected penalties to the Department of Justice. In
the past, DOJ didn't prioritize uncollected penalties and most fines
were never enforced.
The Department of Justice Files Suit to Recover $9.9 Million
Forfeiture Penalty for Nearly 5,000 Illegally Spoofed Robocalls
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-files-suit-recover-forfeiture-penalty-nearly-5000-illegally-spoofed
So has any of the STIR/SHAKEN stuff that was mandated made any
difference on the ground yet? I assume this is different than what you
posted about though.
Mike
