FCC Taking Comments on NCTA Petition for TCPA Waiver
The FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau is seeking comment on an NCTA petition that its members be included in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act rules waiver. Comments are due Dec. 3, replies Dec. 18, the bureau said in a…
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public notice published Tuesday. Like the Coalition of Mobile Engagement Providers, the Direct Marketing Association and the Retail Industry Leaders Association, which received the July waiver, NCTA members "have suffered the same confusion, and are exposed to the same kind of 'pointless and expensive class action litigation' ... and should accordingly receive the same relief" in the form of a waiver of the prior-express-written-consent requirement from Oct. 16, 2013, through Oct. 7, 2015, NCTA said in its October petition in docket 02-278.