FCC Seeks Comment on TCPA Text Message Petition
Comments are due Jan. 27, replies Feb. 11 on a petition seeking an FCC ruling that consumers have a right to revoke consent from receiving unwanted marketing text messages from carriers “at any time by any reasonable means; and that…
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wireless providers must honor these revocation requests immediately” under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. Petitioner Lucas “Cranor contends that, although cellular carriers are not required to obtain consent from their cellular subscribers prior to initiating autodialed calls or texts for which the subscriber is not charged, they must nevertheless honor requests to opt out of such communications,” the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau said Friday in docket 02-278.