FCC Asking Questions About TCPA and Private vs. Commercial Phone Lines
The FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau is looking more closely at the line between private and commercial phones in regard to Telephone Consumer Protection Act rules. Lawyer Todd Bank in March asked for clarity and the bureau sought comment…
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in a Thursday notice. “Bank is an attorney with a law practice based in his home,” CGA said. The phone number Bank uses for his business is listed publicly as both a business and a residential number, the bureau said. “Bank asks the Commission to clarify the scope of its rules to establish a ‘bright-line’ test that when a telephone line is provided as ‘residential’ service by the telephone service provider, it is subject to the Commission’s rules prohibiting calls using an artificial or prerecorded voice to a ‘residential line.’” Comments are due at the FCC May 3, replies May 17.