The Freakin' FCC forces opt-out requests to be honored under the TCPA

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On October 11, 2024, the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced a new series of rules regarding unwanted robocalls and robotexts to be amended into the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 on April 11, 2025. These new rules include:

  • Requiring businesses to honor do-not-call and consent revocation requests within 10 days of receipt.
  • Requiring any reasonable revocation to marketing or informational messages to stop any further marketing or informational messages across all channels.
  • Allows businesses to send a one-time message to clarify the scope of opt-out requests within the situations above, though the message must be sent within 5 minutes of the request.
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This is the step in the right direction. Now, an excellent next step would be to extend liability to carriers turning a blind eye to illegal robocalls. Currently, scum like Fractel, Peerless Network, Onvoy, Telnyx and some others conveniently hide behind the “common carrier provision” that allows them to escape civil or criminal lawsuits. Had the Congress changed the legal framework in that regard, many of us would love to sue such non-compliant businesses. A simple revision of the following kind would immediately change everything: “If it could be proven that the carrier did not exercise proper due diligence to enforce legally compliant behaviors on its network, they could be held criminally and civilly liable for such infractions”.

Now, that would be powerful! I can only imagine seeing imbeciles of ONVOY in agony!

@Tillianne @Jhawk @LordOfTheRings @MehNamesJeff @MajorLeeAwesome @barryspar @Mike1212 @drwat @JusticeinTexas @CatMan - wouldn’t it be a dream and a pure bliss? :wink:

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Criminally liable to the extent of top executives going to prison and not just a corporate name change.

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Exactly! So easy. And if you think about it, it will be “easy money” for the Feds and for refular people like you and I! Hundreds of millions in fines.

I already envision someone like Croatian Kutic brothers and their fellow Balkan lackies from Peerless/Infobip getting apprehended somewhere at JFK Airport in NYC :smiley::smile: I’d put them right into General Population of some prison in NY hood. Let them have a real and unadulterated taste of America. Puny little Croatian boys might not fare too well in such establishments, I am afraid…

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