While the FCC has yet to release the full text of the proposal, the new rules will compel providers to block text messages that appear to originate from numbers on a do-not-originate list. This list includes unused, invalid and unallocated numbers, as well as those that government agencies and other reputable entities say they do not send texts from. According to the FCC, messages from these numbers are “highly likely to be illegal, and no consumer would want to receive them.”
