American Bankers Association Offers Compromise on TCPA Rules for Calls to Cellphones
The American Bankers Association offered a compromise to the FCC on Telephone Consumer Protection Act rules on calls to cellphones. The agency is considering the group’s October petition (see 1410140162) asking that certain time-sensitive informational calls, which are placed with…
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no charge to the called parties, be exempted from the TCPA restrictions. ABA offered the compromise in response to questions from FCC staff, it said in a filing posted by the FCC Friday in docket 02-278. ABA would accept a ruling that it must offer customers the option to opt out from automatic messages, the group said. But ABA proposes that a consumer’s opt-out request apply “only to the account and to the category of message in response to which the request was made,” it said. “For example, a consumer’s request not to receive future data security breach notifications would not foreclose the financial institution from sending future alerts concerning questionable transactions on that or other accounts held at the institution, which also would include notice of an opt-out mechanism applicable to those messages.”