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FCC Bureau Seeks Comment on Junk Fax Rules Petition

The FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau sought comment Friday on a petition for declaratory ruling filed by Best Doctors on FCC Telephone Consumer Protection Act rules. The petition asks for clarification that “a request sent to a telephone facsimile…

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machine asking the recipient to verify ... contact information and operational status ... for inclusion in a database when the request does not state the commercial availability or quality of property, goods, or services is not an ‘advertisement’” under the TCPA, as modified by the Junk Fax Protection Act, the bureau said. Comments are due Jan. 25, in docket 02-278, replies Feb. 8.