by Michael P. Donahue , Robert H. Jackson and Ronald E. Quirk, Jr.
The FCC's Robocall Response Team today announced first-of-their-kind Enforcement Bureau orders to begin removing seven voice service providers from the agency's Robocall Mitigation Database.
The orders demanded that Akabis, Cloud4, Global UC, Horizon Technology Group, Morse Communications, Sharon Telephone Company, and SW Arkansas Telecommunications and Technology show cause within 14 days as to why the FCC should not remove them from the database. Removal from the database would require all intermediate providers and terminating voice service providers to cease carrying the companies' traffic. If that were to occur, all calls from these providers' customers would be blocked and no traffic originated by the provider would reach the called party.