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TCPA Regulatory Update FCC Reverses Course on Broadnet Declaratory Ruling; Begins Implementing Another Section of the TRACED Act Wednesday, December 16, 2020
As in past months, the FCC has taken several small but important steps to curtail illegal robocalls through targeted actions implementing the TRACED Act. Stakeholders have also been meeting virtually with Commission staff on a regular basis to discuss these and other proposals reforming the TCPA. In particular, over the past month, stakeholders urged the FCC to provide clarity surrounding the scope of consumer opt-out requests, as originally requested by the Capital One Petition over a year ago; not to curtail time-tested TCPA exemptions for certain non-marketing calls and for calls and texts from wireless service providers to their customers, as proposed in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking implementing Section 8 of the TRACED Act; and asked the FCC to extend safe harbor protections to cover net