The FCC Wireline Competition Bureau released a public notice announcing that the Secure Telephone Identity Governance Authority updated its service provider code token access policy. Under the revised policy, an entity will no longer need direct access to telephone numbers to participate in the STIR/SHAKEN caller ID authentication framework. In addtion, the revised policy requires that an entity must be listed in the Commission’s forthcoming robocall mitigation database.

The FCC circulated an NPRM on the TRACED Act, Section 10(a), which relates to information sharing and requires the FCC, within 18 months, to prescribe regulations that streamline the manner in which a private entity can share information with the Commission about calls made in violation of the Commission's rules or calls with misleading or inaccurate caller ID information.

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing entitled "Breaking the News: Censorship, Suppression, and the 2020 Election" where Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey testified.

Several pieces of telecommunications-related legislation are making its way through Congress.

In the Senate, the Committee on Indian Affairs passed S. 3264, Bridging the Tribal Digital Divide Act of 2020, which establishes a tribal broadband interagency working group that would provide technical assistance to tribes for the development of a tribal broadband deployment plan, detailing current and projected efforts to meet broadband connectivity goals in tribal communities.

The Senate Commerce Committee approved several bills during an executive session last week, including:

The House of Representatives also passed H.R. 6624, Utilizing Strategic Allied (USA) Telecommunications Act, which would establish a $750 million grant program at NTIA to support companies’ efforts to deploy 5G networks using open radio access network (RAN) technology rather than hardware.