Groups Oppose Perdue for Senate TCPA Petition
Industry and consumer groups asked the FCC to deny Perdue for Senate's petition for declaratory ruling that voicemails delivered through ringless voicemail technology are exempt from the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, in comments posted through Tuesday in docket 02-278 (see…
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2109070062). There are "no technological or legal reason for them not to be covered," said the National Consumer Law Center, Consumer Action, Consumer Federation of America, Electronic Privacy Information Center, National Association of Consumer Advocates, and U.S. Public Interest Research Group. Consumer Reports agreed and said ringless voicemails "can fill up limited capacity" in a phone's mailbox or cause consumers to exhaust their monthly data. CR included more than 90,000 consumer signatures. Deny the petition "absent further articulation of the specifics of the RVM technology at issue" so commenters can assess how TCPA rules apply to it, said USTelecom.