🔍 TL;DR
The FCC’s proposed KYUP rule requires providers to verify upstream partners, conduct due diligence before agreements, monitor traffic for suspicious activity, take corrective action when needed, and maintain auditable compliance records.
📊 Key Facts About Branded Calling
- Verify upstream providers: Collect and validate business, financial, ownership, operational, and online presence data
- Due diligence before agreements: Complete verification before entering or renewing any upstream service relationship
- Ongoing traffic monitoring: Continuously assess traffic patterns and flag abnormal or suspicious volumes
- Required enforcement actions: Take affirmative steps, including service restriction or termination, when illegal activity is detected
- Maintain audit-ready records: Keep documentation that demonstrates reasonable diligence and compliance
- Aligns with STIR/SHAKEN changes: Proposed updates reinforce stronger identity and attestation standards
- Part of broader FCC strategy: KYUP supports a lifecycle approach to stopping illegal calls by embedding accountability at every stage
The FCC's proposed Know Your Upstream Provider (KYUP) Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) would require voice service providers to collect and verify general business, financial, operational, ownership, and internet commercial presence information from upstream providers; conduct due diligence before entering or renewing any upstream service agreement; perform ongoing monitoring of upstream traffic and flag abnormal volumes; take affirmative action, including service termination, when illegal activity is identified; and maintain auditable documentation demonstrating that reasonable diligence was performed.
The proposal also seeks to tighten STIR/SHAKEN attestation standards in parallel, reinforcing that KYUP is part of a broader FCC posture to attack illegal calls at every point in the call lifecycle.
Read more about the FCC’s KYUP FNRPM progress and expectations in Numeracle’s latest article.
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