SIM Swap, Port-Out Fraud Comments Due Nov. 15

Comments are due Nov. 15, replies Dec. 14, on FCC-proposed changes to customer proprietary network information and local number portability rules to require carriers to adopt methods of authenticating a customer before redirecting that customer's phone number to a new device or carrier, said Friday's Federal Register. Commissioners adopted the NPRM 4-0 at September's meeting (see 2109300069).