FCC to Wrongdoers: Answer Your Mail! [telecom]

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By Mitchell Lazarus, CommLawBlog, May 29, 2016

Failure to respond to FCC notices can have adverse consequences.

When the FCC proposed to fine Chinese company C.T.S. Technology $34,912,500 a couple of years ago for marketing jammers in the United States, we predicted it would have trouble collecting. Silly us -- we underestimated the FCC's problems in even communicating with C.T.S., which did not respond at all to a Notice of Apparent Liability (NAL). The FCC has now issued a Forfeiture Order that enters a default judgment against C.T.S, making the full $34.9 million payable within 30 days.

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