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The FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau sought...

The FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau sought comment Monday on a petition by Rubio’s Restaurant Inc., seeking further clarification of the agency’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) rules. Rubio’s asked the FCC to confirm that callers who get “prior…

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express consent” from a called party “are not liable under the TCPA for dissemination of informational, non-telemarketing alerts, to telephone numbers that have been reassigned without the caller’s knowledge,” the bureau said (http://bit.ly/1l9cDq4). Rubio’s also asked the FCC to confirm that the TCPA “does not apply to intra-company messaging systems which are not aimed at consumers and [are] never intended to reach the public,” the bureau said. Comments are due Sept. 24, replies Oct. 9.