by Michael P. Donahue , Robert H. Jackson and Ronald E. Quirk, Jr.
The Federal Communications Commission ("FCC" or "Commission") recently released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("NPRM") proposing new rules to mitigate malicious robotext campaigns. The FCC is soliciting public comments on whether to require mobile wireless providers to find and actively block illegal texts, as well as ideas to apply caller ID authentication standards to text messaging. The deadline for comments is November 10, 2022, and reply comments are due by December 10, 2022.