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   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NEWS MEDIA CONTACT:

   January 15, 2010 David Fiske: (202) 418-0513

   Email: david.fiske@fcc.gov

   STATEMENT OF P. MICHELE ELLISON, CHIEF, ENFORCEMENT BUREAU ON ISSUANCE OF
                   THE BUREAU'S FIRST ENFORCEMENT ADVISORIES

   Today, the Enforcement Bureau launches a new initiative with the release
   of two Enforcement Advisories targeting critical consumer protection
   issues.  The rules involved are designed to ensure that consumers can
   benefit fully from the wide array of modern communications services and
   technologies.

   While most companies and individuals take their regulatory obligations
   seriously, some appear unaware of what the Commission's rules require or
   choose not to comply. The Enforcement Bureau will continue to work
   proactively to bring these entities into compliance. By the actions we
   take today, we affirm our commitment to strong, vigorous, and fair
   enforcement of the Commission's rules.

   The Enforcement Bureau will periodically release Enforcement Advisories,
   which are designed to educate businesses about and alert consumers to
   what's required by FCC rules, the purpose of those rules and why they're
   important to consumers, as well as the consequences of failures to comply.
   We hope that these Advisories will become a familiar tool for industry and
   their counsel as they conduct periodic compliance reviews and increase
   their internal, self-policing efforts.

     

   Today's Enforcement Advisories deal with protecting highly-sensitive
   information that carriers gather on their customers (i.e., customer
   proprietary network information) and with ensuring that individuals with
   hearing disabilities can fully utilize wireless phone services. 

   Consumer protection enforcement is at the core of the Bureau's mission. I
   look forward to continuing cross-Bureau and interagency efforts toward
   this end, as well as to working with industry, public interest groups, and
   other stakeholders in the months ahead.

                   EB's Enforcement Advisories are available

              on the Enforcement Bureau website at www.fcc.gov/eb.

Click HERE to view the advisories.

                                    --FCC--

   NEWS

   Federal Communications Commission

   445 12th Street, S.W.

   Washington, D. C. 20554

   This is an unofficial announcement of Commission action. Release of the
   full text of a Commission order constitutes official action.

   See MCI v. FCC. 515 F 2d 385 (D.C. Circ 1974).

                                        News Media Information 202 / 418-0500

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