Written by Michael Selle
It was back in December 2018, before the pandemic temporarily shuttered stores and forced the whole world to “go remote,” that the FCC voted to create a national reassigned number database (RND) to help companies that send autodialed text messages and make robocalls avoid the liability that had been created in 2015 when the FCC interpreted the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) to impose liability where autodialed calls or texts were made to a telephone number that had been assigned to a new user. As we have covered, progress towards building a national database that would allow companies to know whether or not the number that had previously opted-in to receive autodialed calls and text messages had subsequently been reassigned to a new user has been slow, at best. But, after several months of beta testing, the FCC has now announced that the RND will go live on November 1, 2021. Below, we provide all the important details that any company making autodialed calls or sending autodialed text messages should understand about the RND and how it can help mitigate potential TCPA liability.
