Robocalls and texts currently represent the FCC's largest source of complaints, with an estimated 4.4 billion calls generating 161,000 complaints in 2021 alone. In this special investigative report, Communications Daily's editors review the current sources and scale of the robocall scourge, examine legislative and judicial actions attempting to address the issue at the federal and state levels, and look to other countries' efforts for potential solutions.
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This special report summarizes Communications Daily's 2020 reporting on staffing diversity at the FCC and the media and telecom industry. While progress has been made in some areas, the report finds that much of the nation's telecom leadership has room to improve the composition of its workforce and executives in order to better reflect the demographics of the United States.
This Special Report on Emergency Communications details the challenges of modernizing systems 911, and other hurdles to further improving public safety. The six articles by Communications Daily journalists are the result of months of research, interviews, document reviews and public-records requests.
In a special report The Pai Perspective: A Look at the FCC’s New Deregulatory Leadership, the award-winning editorial team at Communications Daily examines the chair’s history prior to the FCC, his record so far, and his priorities for his term.
Net neutrality has been heavily challenged in the courts and faces an uncertain future under the Trump administration. To help the telecommunications industry understand where net neutrality regulation has come from, and where it might be going, the editors of Communications Daily have assembled a special report: The Course of Net Neutrality.