I remember not so long ago when everyone knew the rules.

Carriers could not block calls.

Intermediary carriers, in particular, would never fathom intruding upon a transmission.

The link ups were designed to assure ease of access across networks. The only goal was to assure people and companies could communicate across the patchwork telecom prairies.

For years now things have been changing. The carriers have been given outlandish powers to block calls and texts and they have acted outlandishly.

That will change soon. R.E.A.C.H. will be petitioning the FCC to BAN carrier call blocking of TCPA-compliant calls and texts. (Be ready, its coming.)

But before that day comes, we have this day.

A day when a federal court has decided an intermediary carrier– not an originating carrier, much less the CPaaS provided or the caller, the freakin intermediary carrier– can be held liable for the content of calls that traverse its network.

For longtime telecom denizens and wonks this ruling is nearly unthinkable. Its like receiving a lethal dose of neutrinos– its impossible.

Yet here we are.

For further reading, please follow the link below:-

https://tcpaworld.com/2024/09/20/carrier-carnage-intermediary-carrier-crushed-with-tsr-violations-and-the-telecom-world-will-never-be-the-same/