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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Financial Services, Healthcare, and Technology sector clients — and any company that places non-marketing calls or text communications to customers by automated means — should pay close attention to two new FCC orders from year-end 2020. The orders place new restrictions and rules on how often companies can place certain types of communications to customers, and establish new opt-out requirements. If your business makes automated ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) generally restricts making certain non-emergency calls to cellular phones and landlines, among other things, without the called party’s consent.  However, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has created a number of exemptions on which business have come to rely.  A new FCC Order significantly limits those exemptions. Background The TCPA places different restrictions on making c...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On December 30, 2020, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) released a Report and Order updating a number of Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) exemptions. The Report and Order codifies exemptions for calls to wireless numbers, and adds call limits and opt-out requirements for exemptions for calls to residential lines. Importantly, this latest move does not create any new TCPA exemptions; it instead updates a...

New FCC robocall rules promise monthly limits and new blocking tools Chris Davies - Dec 31, 2020, 8:54am CST The FCC is hoping to better crack down on persistent unwanted robocalls, with new rules putting more responsibility on phone companies to prevent them getting through. It’s the latest escalation in an ongoing battle against unwanted and illegal robocalls, particularly those which aren’t telemarketing, with new limitations being applied and extra tools for blocking ...

Attorney General Dana Nessel. (Photo by Jeana Gondek). LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) —  Recommendations on how the telecom industry, hospitals and the federal and state governments can prevent illegal robocalls from disrupting communications in hospitals were presented to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently by a federal advisory committee, which includes Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office. The Hospital Robocall Protection Group (HRPG) issued i...