by Russell H. Fox , Elana Safner and Jonathan P. Garvin
Comments were due on February 1 in response to an FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau Public Notice seeking comment on how to best facilitate the voluntary adoption of the FCC's Hospital Robocall Protection Group's ("HRPG") best practices for combatting illegal robocalls in hospitals. Some telecommunications industry commenters supported the HRPG's recommendations and called for widespread voluntary adoption of the proposals and their use by other industry sectors particularly vulnerable to harm from unlawful robocalling.