U.S. FCC Chairman Circulates Proposed TCPA Decision with Significant Impact Across Industry Sectors

He authored a blog post on the proposal and also released a fact sheet.

As part of the Chairman’s proposal, the FCC would issue the following rulings:

• Consumers can revoke their consent to receive automated “robocalls” and texts in any reasonable way at any time;

• Carriers would be expressly allowed to offer robocall-blocking technology;

• Callers would be prohibited from calling reassigned telephone numbers after one call;

• The term “automatic telephone dialing system” in the TCPA would be interpreted to encompass any technology with the capacity to dial random or sequential numbers; and

• Exceptions would be allowed in limited, specific circumstances for urgent communications, such as for bank account fraud and prescription refill reminders (the calls and texts must be free and consumers would still be able to opt-out).

The proposal is expected to be voted on at the FCC’s next open meeting on June 18.

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This entry originally was posted on Hogan Lovells’ Focus on Regulation Blog.

Authored by Mark Brennan