This filing was submitted to urge the FCC not to act on the “Emergency Petition for Commission to consider a stay of effective date of one-to-one rule in light of Executive Order” filed by the group known as Responsible Enterprises Against Consumer Harassment, MBC (R.E.A.C.H.). Given the harm to consumers and small businesses that would result from granting this petition, the undersigned national consumer and privacy groups thought it prudent to respond to the petition immediately.
We point out that the one-to-one regulation amending 47 C.F.R. § 64.1200(f)(9) issued by the Commission on December 18, 2023, was appropriately adopted pursuant to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. The regulation is widely supported by consumers and small businesses, a bipartisan coalition of 28 state Attorneys General, as well as the telephone industry. A delay of the effective date of the regulation as proposed by the petition requires full compliance with the Administrative Procedures Act, and thus even it was warranted (which it is not), cannot be adopted in time to delay the effective date of the one-to-one regulation, which is January 27, 2025.
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