FCC Seeks Comments on 2 More Petitions for TCPA Rulings
Comments are due June 22, replies July 9, on two petitions for FCC interpretations under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. The Insights Association and the American Association for Public Opinion Research asked for declaratory ruling clarifying four areas, including that…
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"communications are not presumptively ‘advertisements’ or ‘telemarketing’ under the TCPA simply because they are sent by a for-profit company, or might be for an ultimate purpose of improving sales or customer relations,” said a Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau public notice Wednesday in docket 02-278. The P2P Alliance, a coalition of providers and users of peer-to-peer text messaging, asked the FCC "to clarify that P2P text messaging is not subject to the [TCPA] restrictions on calls to wireless phone numbers because such messaging does not use an automatic telephone dialing system (autodialer)," said another PN.