Reject Broadnet Calls for TCPA Clarity, Consumer Groups Tell FCC
Reject Broadnet Teleservices' ask that the FCC find the Telephone Consumer Protection Act doesn’t apply (see 2007210049) to calls made “by or on behalf of federal, state, and local governments when such calls are made for official purposes,” consumer groups…
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told the FCC. “There is no legal authority to support defining local governments as anything other than ‘persons’ fully covered by the TCPA’s requirements,” said the National Consumer Law Center, the Consumer Federation of America, Consumer Reports, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and Public Knowledge. “None of the reasons cited by Broadnet in support of this interpretation actually provide a real justification for Broadnet’s request, as most of the calls described as needing to be made either can already be made under the TCPA’s emergency exception, or because the local government would have received prior consent for the calls from the recipients,” they said, in a filing posted Monday in docket 02-278.