American Bankers Association Asks FCC To Revise TCPA Rules
The American Bankers Association wants the FCC to revise its June 18 declaratory ruling refining rules for the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (see 1506180046), ABA said in a petition for reconsideration. ABA asked the FCC to revise the rules providing…
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an exemption only for calls and texts sent to “the wireless telephone number provided by the customer of the financial institution.” This condition "will limit severely the ability of banks to send, and of customers to receive, the urgent calls and texts covered by the exemptions, with no offsetting benefit to customers and without advancing the privacy rights the TCPA is intended to serve,” the ABA said. “By largely limiting exempted calls to those sent to customer-provided mobile contact numbers, this condition significantly reduces the exemptions’ value to customers, who can already receive urgent messages covered by the exemptions, on a non-free-to-end-user basis, if prior express consent has been granted.” The association asked that the exemption cover instead affected customers and money transfer recipients. “Adoption of the proposed condition would restore the exemptions’ benefits without increasing the risk that the exemptions will be abused,” said the petition posted Monday in docket 02-278.