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Bankers Seek Change to December TCPA Order

The American Bankers Association and others asked the FCC to correct what they said was a mistake in a December order clarifying rules under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (see 2012140056). The FCC “limited the number of calls that may…

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be placed under the Informational Calls Exemption to three calls within any consecutive 30-day period,” said a filing posted Thursday in docket 02-278. “The Commission amended Section 64.1200(a)(3) of Title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulations in a manner that appears inadvertently to impose a prior express written consent requirement on informational prerecorded or artificial voice calls to a residential number made outside of the Informational Calls Exemption,” the filing said: “Imposing a written consent requirement was clearly in error as it conflicts directly with the text of the Order and other codified regulations in Section 64.1200.” The bankers and other financial groups spoke with Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau staff.