CTIA Seeks Year Extension to SIM Swapping Rules Deadline
CTIA sought a 12-month extension to the FCC's current six-month deadline for carriers to implement new rules protecting consumers from SIM swapping and port-out fraud. Commissioners approved the rules 5-0 in November (see 2311150042). “CTIA seeks a targeted revision to…
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the Order to ensure that providers have adequate time to develop the comprehensive systems and processes needed to implement the new rules and best serve the Commission’s and industry’s shared goals,” said the petition, posted Tuesday in docket 21-341. “The Order underestimates the time needed for providers to implement the new rules,” CTIA said: Eighteen months is “the minimum window needed to complete the needed changes across the varied and complex systems impacted by the Order’s new authentication, notification, recordkeeping, and other requirements as well as other new rules by the Commission that impact some of these same systems.” CTIA noted that providers “already have robust protections in place such that consumers and businesses will not be left unprotected during this transition period.” CTIA warned that the record didn't support the deadline in the order, calling the decision “arbitrary and capricious.”