Phone validation and compliance
What is the TCPA?
Also called: Telephone Consumer Protection Act
The TCPA, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, is the US law restricting telemarketing calls, autodialed calls and texts, and prerecorded or artificial-voice messages. It requires prior express consent for many calls and texts to mobile numbers and lets recipients sue for $500 per violation, up to $1,500 if willful.
The law is at 47 U.S.C. § 227 and the FCC's rules at 47 CFR 64.1200. Calls and texts to mobile numbers are treated more strictly than calls to landlines, which is why knowing a number's line type matters before a campaign.
Telemarketing to consumers also has to respect the National Do Not Call Registry, calling-hour limits and your own internal do-not-call list.
The statutory damages make class actions common, and the details of consent change with FCC orders and court rulings. This is a definition, not legal advice: have counsel review any calling or texting program.
How SimpleVerifier handles it
SimpleVerifier does not check consent or the Do Not Call Registry. The Email + Phone plan's line-type lookup tells you which numbers are mobile, which is one input to a TCPA review.
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