CTIA Raises Concerns on Draft Robocalling Item
CTIA representatives raised concerns on parts of an FCC robocall item, teed up for a vote Feb. 15, which codifies some robocall rules while asking about applying protections in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act to robocalls and robotexts from wireless…
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carriers to their own subscribers (see 2401250068). CTIA met with aides to Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel and Commissioners Geoffrey Starks and Anna Gomez, said a filing posted Thursday in docket 02-278. Proposals in the draft Further NPRM could undermine “the Commission’s consumer protection goals by compromising wireless providers’ ability to send valuable, wanted messages pursuant to the plain language of the TCPA” and the commission’s “longstanding recognition that the statute does not reach the communications made by wireless providers to their subscribers at no charge,” CTIA said.