CAN-SPAM Mobile Service Commercial Messages
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2026-10-26 — Modernizing the Ability of Consumers To Control Robocalls: cross-connection with tcpa-consent-revocation-modernization: Two-way texting and revocation-of-consent requirements would interact with CAN-SPAM’s existing mobile commercial message framework. (novelty: 3)
- 2009-04-02 — m-SPAM Act of 2009: The m-SPAM Act of 2009 (S. 788, 111th Cong.) proposed to narrow the definition of ‘mobile service commercial message’ under CAN-SPAM by exempting free carrier-originated messages and phone-to-phone SMS, and directed the FTC to treat unwanted mobile commercial messages sent to Do Not Call-registered numbers as abusive telemarketing; the bill was introduced but not enacted. (novelty: 2)