COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD)- South Carolina Legal professional Normal Alan Wilson on Monday introduced assist for an FCC proposal that might minimize down on undesirable and unlawful textual content messages.
The FCC proposal would require cellular wi-fi suppliers to dam texts from invalid, unassigned, or unused numbers, and numbers on ‘Do Not Originate’ (DNO) lists.
“As a lot as all of us hate robocalls, now we’re additionally being bombarded with robotext messages, so we’re asking the FCC to take the identical motion on undesirable texts that it did with undesirable calls,” Legal professional Normal Wilson mentioned.
In keeping with the FCC, the company obtained greater than 15,000 consumer complaints about undesirable textual content messages in 2021, a virtually 10 p.c improve from the earlier 12 months.
Along with blocking illegal textual content messages from fraudulent numbers, the coalition of attorneys common asked the FCC to proceed pushing the wi-fi business to develop name authentication know-how that might assist regulation enforcement observe spoofed numbers and establish dangerous actors.
Wilson was one in every of 51 attorneys common to assist the proposal.
