CTIA Says Progress Being Made on Text Messaging to Toll-Free Numbers
CTIA told FCC officials its Messaging Working Group (MWG) is developing principles and best practices that “reflect and encourage an evolving wireless messaging ecosystem.” The group reported in a filing in docket 08-7 on a meeting with FCC staff, led…
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by CTIA General Counsel Tom Power. “MWG includes stakeholders throughout the wireless messaging ecosystem who are working to identify consensus based views on how to enable consumers and enterprises to exchange wireless messages, while investing all messaging stakeholders with the responsibility to protect consumers from unwanted messages,” said the association. “CTIA is working with toll-free ecosystem stakeholders, including Somos, ZipWhip, and RespOrgs [responsible organizations], to identify key principles that uphold the integrity of toll-free telephone numbers, provide transparency to RespOrgs and protect consumers from unwanted messages from toll-free telephone numbers.”