FCC removes Mexico IP Phone from the RMD over a forged numbering notice

The FCC Enforcement Bureau removed Mexico IP Phone LLC from the Robocall Mitigation Database on October 16 (DA 26-1116, EB Docket No. 22-174), finding its certification “willfully deficient.” Intermediate and voice service providers must stop accepting its traffic directly within two business days of release, which lands on October 20.

The June 11 show-cause order (DA 26-574) cited a February recertification that named no individual principal and left out an August 2025 notice from the state attorneys general’s Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force. That notice put the company immediately downstream of non-responsive providers in at least 40 tracebacks. Mexico IP fixed both items on June 12. The removal rests on a numbering scheme instead. On February 6, CEO Hemant Kumar Bharti emailed the North American Numbering Plan Administrator a forged FCC public notice, copied from a real notice issued to an unrelated company, granting Mexico IP direct access to numbers. Wireline Competition Bureau staff told NANPA it “appears to be falsified” and referred the matter to enforcement in March. The company blamed a Malaysian freelancer hired on Fiverr and paid in cryptocurrency. The order notes Fiverr does not take cryptocurrency and finds “Bharti himself likely orchestrated the numbering scheme.” Bharti declined to appear in person, citing international travel, and the Bureau doubts both the Albuquerque address and the company’s claim not to be a foreign provider.

The Bureau had already found Mexico IP “closely affiliated” with SK Teleco, removed in June over Walmart impersonation robocalls. This is the second RMD removal in October, after Digital Solutions (DA 26-1073). The pending RMD further notice (FCC 26-49) proposes disclosure of principals and Bureau screening of filings before they publish.

Curing the defects named in the show-cause order did not save the filing.