FCC Seeks Comment on Broadnet TCPA Petition
The FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau sought comment on a petition by Colorado-based Broadnet Teleservices asking the FCC to decide Telephone Consumer Protection Act restrictions don't apply to calls made “by or on behalf of federal, state, and local…
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governments when such calls are made for official purposes.” Broadnet raised the issue in a Sept. 16 petition to the FCC. Absent clarification from the FCC “citizens that rely on their wireless phones as their primary, or only, means of telephone communication will be deprived of important opportunities to engage with their government that wired citizens currently enjoy,” Broadnet said. “Receiving calls from the government with important information is not the type of harm from which Congress was attempting to shield consumers.” Comments are due Oct. 29, replies Nov. 13, in docket 02-278, the bureau said in a Wednesday public notice. The FCC has taken a tough stand on the TCPA, approving an order and declaratory ruling in June that industry critics said would expand the number of TCPA-related law suits (see 1506180046).