FCC Advances Phone Rule Reforms to Enhance Consumer Protections
Posted: Oct 29 2025
The Federal Communications Commission has voted to issue a notice of proposed rulemaking that would modernize the FCC’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act rules and combat illegal call spoofing.
The TCPA is a 1991 law that regulates telemarketing and informational calls using an autodialer or artificial or prerecorded voice. Under a draft version of the rulemaking, the FCC’s proposal would make several changes to the FCC’s TCPA rules including rescinding or modifying a 2024 rule that broadly expanded what messages are covered when a customer revokes consent (the “revoke all” rule); eliminating the “provided number” condition that allows banks and other financial institutions to place calls under an existing exemption for fraud alerts only to numbers that were provided by the customer; and deleting the requirement that a caller be placed on an internal “do not call” list when the caller requests not to receive telemarketing calls.
As for combating illegal call spoofing, the FCC is proposing to enhance the effectiveness of the STIR/SHAKEN call authentication framework and to require voice service providers that transmit caller identity information to employ reasonable measures to verify the accuracy of the information transmitted, among other changes.