Trump Mobile's Missing FCC Paperwork
In a letter to the company, Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) said Trump Mobile apparently failed to obtain the necessary authorizations to operate the international calling portion of its phone service. Her letter also said the company doesn't appear to have submitted a required plan for fighting robocalls.
A senator's letter is a set of allegations, not a finding, and the FCC's own records rather than a letter are what establish whether a filing exists. Still, the two items are worth separating: a missing robocall plan is an embarrassment, while missing authorization to operate part of a phone service goes nearer to the question of what the company is actually licensed to sell.
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The robocall plan is the most ordinary item in the letter and the easiest to check — either the filing is in the FCC's database or it isn't.
Ease of checking isn't the same as importance. A missing robocall filing is administrative; failing to get authorizations for the international calling portion of the service goes to whether that portion can be operated at all.
Both remain allegations until the company's filings, not a senator's letter, answer them.