# Targeting and Eliminating Unlawful Text Messages, Implementation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, Advanced Methods To Target and Eliminate Unlawful Robocalls
> **Federal Communications Commission** · Final rule. · Published 2024-01-26 · Effective 2024-03-26 · 89 FR 5098
## Document
- **Document number:** 2023-28832
- **Category:** robocall-tcpa
- **Federal Register citation:** 89 FR 5098
- **Publication date:** 2024-01-26
- **Effective date:** 2024-03-26
- **FCC docket:** CG Docket Nos. 21-402, 02-278, 17-59
## Abstract

In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) requires terminating mobile wireless providers to block text messages from a particular number following notification from the Commission. The Commission also codifies that the National Do-Not-Call (DNC) Registry's protections extend to text messages. In addition, the Commission encourages mobile wireless providers to make email-to-text, a major source of illegal texts, a service that consumers proactively opt into. The Commission closes the lead generator loophole by requiring comparison shopping websites to get consumer consent one seller at a time, if prior express written consent is required under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), and thus prohibits abuse of consumer consent by such websites. Finally, the Commission adopts a limited waiver to allow providers to use the Reassigned Numbers Database (RND) to determine whether a number that the Commission has ordered to be blocked has been permanently disconnected. Such waiver will help prevent blocking of lawful texts from a new subscriber to the number.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/01/26/2023-28832/targeting-and-eliminating-unlawful-text-messages-implementation-of-the-telephone-consumer-protection)
---
*AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*