REACH Meets Carr Aide on Safe Harbor Concerns

Representatives of Responsible Enterprises Against Consumer Harassment (REACH) met with an aide to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr on the group’s proposal that the FCC revise its robocall/robotext safe harbor rules (see 2501290033).

Carriers are interfering with “and outright blocking legal calls,” said a filing Thursday in docket 02-278. “While carriers have been empowered to block illegal calls, a uniform standard that governs how and when this authority is exercised is missing. Carriers should not be permitted to block calls and messages simply because they dislike the content.” The problem is “especially severe” for SMS texting, REACH said. “The ‘reasonable analytics’ standard doesn’t even apply to text messages, yet carriers are using opaque and unaccountable methods to block them.”