§10. Equal facilities to connecting lines; discrimination in rates — Inbound Citations

Citations to 47 U.S.C. § 10 as a whole

• 47 U.S.C. § 227b(c)(1)

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  (1) Consistent with the regulations prescribed under subsection (j) of section 227 of this title, as added by section 10, the Commission shall, not later than 1 year after December 30, 2019, promulgate rules—

  (A) establishing when a provider of voice service may block a voice call based, in whole or in part, on information provided by the call authentication frameworks under subsection (b), with no additional line item charge;

  (B) establishing a safe harbor for a provider of voice service from liability for unintended or inadvertent blocking of calls or for the unintended or inadvertent misidentification of the level of trust for individual calls based, in whole or in part, on information provided by the call authentication frameworks under subsection (b);

  (C) establishing a process to permit a calling party adversely affected by the information provided by the call authentication frameworks under subsection (b) to verify the authenticity of the calling party’s calls; and

  (D) ensuring that calls originating from a provider of voice service in an area where the provider is subject to a delay of compliance with the time period described in subsection (b)(1) are not unreasonably blocked because the calls are not able to be authenticated.
• 47 U.S.C. § 227b(c)(2)

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  (2) In establishing the safe harbor under paragraph (1), consistent with the regulations prescribed under subsection (j) of section 227 of this title, as added by section 10, the Commission shall consider limiting the liability of a provider of voice service based on the extent to which the provider of voice service—

  (A) blocks or identifies calls based, in whole or in part, on the information provided by the call authentication frameworks under subsection (b);

  (B) implemented procedures based, in whole or in part, on the information provided by the call authentication frameworks under subsection (b); and

  (C) used reasonable care, including making all reasonable efforts to avoid blocking emergency public safety calls.
• 47 U.S.C. § 902(b)(2)(S)

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  (S) The authority to establish coordinating committees pursuant to section 10 of Executive Order 11556.
• 47 U.S.C. § 1206(f)(4)

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  (4) the term “Wireless Emergency Alerts System” means the wireless national public warning system established under the Warning, Alert, and Response Network Act (47 U.S.C. 1201 et seq.), the rules for which are set forth in part 10 of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations (or any successor regulation).