The FCC should grant YouMail’s petition for an...
The FCC should grant YouMail’s petition for an expedited declaratory ruling, which the agency sought comment on in June, to assert that sending an immediate text message once to reply to a voicemail does not violate the Telephone Consumer Protection…
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Act, CTIA said in reply comments Friday (http://bit.ly/17CNAyA). “YouMail’s service is not the type of communication that Congress was trying to address,” the wireless association said. “Instead, the YouMail mobile phone application allows the recipient of a call to send an immediate reply to a voicemail using a single text message.” The YouMail user controls whether the text is sent, it added. It encouraged the FCC to approve the YouMail petition to “ensure that innovation in the mobile marketplace is not stifled further.”