Instead of fines, I would rather see mandatory SS7 circuit decom for any business that facilitates these calls, spoofed text messages, etc. Same goes for ISP's. Facilitate this nonsense, lose your AS number and IP allocations.
If the statutory damages are that high, why not offer a consumer-targeted service that automates the attorney-sue-part of the whole ordeal? Or at least everything except the small claims date, so you just get told when yo appear and are given some briefing by the service to know what you'll need to do in court.<p>Take commission, and take care of all collection that might be needed. Drag non-payers to criminal court/liquidate their assets. It's not so much about individual-claim-level ROI, but about making robocall operations as dangerous if not more so than running a meth lab.
I’m not sure why it’s not mentioned in the article but if I’m reading it right the act does appear to require phone companies to implement the STIR/SHAKEN protocols to authenticate calls so this isn’t just giving the FCC powers it already had to fine callers it had no way to identify.