Group Seeks TCPA Clarity on Peer-to-Peer Text Messages
The Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Alliance asked the FCC to clarify that P2P text messages to mobile phones are not subject to the restrictions in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. P2P text messaging “is a relatively new communications technology that allows organizations…
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to communicate with their students, employees, supporters, and customers through individual, personalized text messages,” the group said in a petition in docket 02-278. “Universities, nonprofits, and businesses use P2P text messaging to communicate with individuals with whom they already have a relationship. Political campaigns, political committees, and their supporters use P2P texting to share information with voters, activists, and donors.” But because of its nature, P2P can’t be sent by an autodialer, the group said. “Each and every message transmitted using a P2P platform must be individually sent from a single sender to a single recipient; P2P texting does not allow the simultaneous or sequential transmittal of messages to a list of recipients,” the filing said. “Rather, sending a message through a P2P platform requires a person to manually send each individual message to each individual recipient.”