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Targeting and Eliminating Unlawful Text Messages, Implementation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991,

FCC’s ongoing efforts to close the lead gen loophole another part of the Targeting and Eliminating Unlawful Text Messages was published today. The latest piece of the puzzle is the effective date, September 3, 2024, and publication of the Text Blocking Report and Order adding to section § 64.1200 Delivery Restrictions in the Federal Registry “requiring all mobile wireless providers to block certain text messages that are highly likely to be illegal”.

This final rule is effective September 3, 2024. Compliance with 47 CFR 64.1200(p), is required as of September 3, 2024.

The new rules read as follows:

(p) A mobile wireless provider must block a text message purporting to originate from a North American Numbering Plan number on a reasonable do-not-originate list. A list so limited in scope that it leaves out obvious North American Numbering Plan numbers that could be included with little effort may be deemed unreasonable. The do-not-originate list may include only:

1. North American Numbering Plan Numbers for which the subscriber to the number has requested that texts purporting to originate from that number be blocked;
2. North American Numbering Plan numbers that are not valid;
3. Valid North American Numbering Plan numbers that are not allocated to a provider by the North American Numbering Plan Administrator; and
4. Valid North American Numbering Plan numbers that are allocated to a provider by the North American Numbering Plan Administrator, but are unused, so long as the provider blocking the message is the allocatee of the number and confirms that the number is unused or has obtained verification from the allocatee that the number is unused at the time of blocking.

PDF (03/01/2024)
Federal Register