Public Knowledge representatives asked FCC officials to address their 2007...
Public Knowledge representatives asked FCC officials to address their 2007 petition asking the commission to clarify that text messaging is subject to the same nondiscrimination rules as voice communications. “Demands made on the current short code text messaging system simply…
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outpace its capacity and exceed its ability,” Public Knowledge said in an ex parte letter on the meeting. “As the use of short codes and text messaging increases, problems like those experienced by NARAL, Catholic Relief Services, and WeedMaps.com will continue to occur unless the Commission clarifies responsibility.” The FCC could lose control of the process if it doesn’t act, Public Knowledge said: “In the recent case of EZ Texting and WeedMaps.com, a federal judge was a courthouse-steps settlement away from being presented with the very questions that the Commission has failed to answer in the past three years."