FCC Seeks Comments on Anti-Spam Text Reporting Paperwork
Published Date: 10/6/2026
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Summary
The FCC is checking in on its paperwork rules to make sure they're helpful and not too much work, especially for small businesses. They want your thoughts on how to keep stopping illegal text messages while making the process easier and clearer. If you have ideas or concerns, send them in by December 7, 2026—this affects businesses and local governments who report on unwanted texts.
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Network-level blocking of likely-illegal texts
The FCC requires all mobile wireless providers to block—at the network level—text messages that are highly likely to be illegal. This includes texts from North American Numbering Plan (NANP) numbers on a reasonable Do-Not-Originate (DNO) list, such as invalid, unallocated, or unused numbers, and NANP numbers that a subscriber asked to have blocked (described in the Text Blocking Report and Order published April 11, 2023).
Reporting burden on providers and governments
The information collection (OMB Control Number 3060-1322) covers 1,184 respondents and 14,208 responses, with an estimated 1 hour per response and a total annual burden of 14,208 hours. Respondents are business or other for-profit entities and state, local, or tribal governments; the FCC is asking for comments on the burden and ways to minimize it, including on small businesses with fewer than 25 employees.
Must provide contact for erroneously blocked texts
Mobile wireless providers and other entities must maintain a point of contact so texters can report texts that were blocked in error and have those erroneous blockings quickly remedied. This is intended to restore legitimate messages that were mistakenly blocked.
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