Cellphone companies have to block robotext messages that are highly likely to be illegal under new FCC rules specifically targeting spam texts
Spam texts have risen and companies will have to block messages regulators say are likely to be illegal.U.S. regulators say scam textsUnder new rules adopted Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission, mobile-service providers have to block robotext messages the agency says are
highly likely to be illegal. That includes texts from numbers that shouldn’t be sending messages, such as unused and invalid numbers, as well as those that government agencies identify as not for texting.
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