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Enhancing Know-Your-Customer Requirements
The Federal Communications Commission published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on May 26, 2026. Comments closed on June 25, 2026.
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What the agency says
In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) proposes actions to provide additional clarity to fill the gap between its current Know Your Customer (KYC) requirement and the types of rigorous KYC steps necessary to protect consumers. Specifically, the Commission seeks comment on customer identification requirements for new and renewing customers, requirements for verifying, retaining, and re-verifying customer information, requiring more information from certain customers such as high-volume customers, and on how these efforts can complement call branding and caller name requirements the Commission may adopt. The Commission also proposes to assess penalties for violations of the KYC requirement on a per call basis. With this inquiry, the Commission aims to make it more difficult for scammers to originate illegal calls and easier to enforce against them when they do get onto the network.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2026-10407
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Proposed rule
- Agency
- Federal Communications Commission
- Published
- May 26, 2026
- Comments due
- June 25, 2026
- Dates
- Comments are due on or before June 25, 2026 and reply comments are due on or before July 27, 2026.
- Docket
- CG Docket Nos. 17-59 and 02-278; FCC 26-27; FR ID 347476
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 47 CFR 1
- Topics
- Administrative practice and procedure; Communications common carriers; Penalties; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements; Telecommunications; Telephone
- Pages
- 8
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