Cable Interests Urge FCC to Clarify TCPA Terminology
Companies are struggling with "unwarranted litigation risk" and bigger hurdles communicating with customers, which points to the FCC needing to provide guidance on application of key terms in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, Charter Communications, Comcast and Cox representatives told…
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an aide to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, recounted a docket 18-152 ex parte posting Monday. They urged the agency to make clear that equipment should be classified as an automatic telephone dialing system under the TCPA only if it can generate numbers randomly or sequentially and is used that way without human intervention. They said the FCC should make clear a call's intended recipient is the "called party" until the caller is told the number has been reassigned, and should clarify rules governing revocation of consent.