Peer-to-Peer Alliance Asks Pai for TCPA Clarity
Members of the P2P Alliance met with Chairman Ajit Pai asking him to move forward on the group's request that the FCC clarify that peer-to-peer text messages to mobile phones aren't subject to Telephone Consumer Protection Act restrictions (see 1805040028).…
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“P2P texting allows organizations to communicate with students, employees, neighborhood residents, voters, and customers through individualized, manually-sent, person-to-person text messages ... and permit real-time, two-way communications between the sender and the recipient,” the group said, in a filing posted Wednesday in docket 02-278. “Each text message is individually and manually sent from a single sender to a single recipient.” The coalition also discussed “the key role fulfilled by P2P texting in rendering aid to Houston, Texas residents affected by Hurricane Harvey last year,” the filing said. Hustle CEO Roddy Lindsay and Gerrit Lansing, co-founder of Opn Sesame, were among attendees. Pai Wednesday unveiled other TCPA-related steps (see 1905150041).