On October 1, 2026, the FCC released its Report and Order (R&O) and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) on consent revocation under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).  The FCC circulated a draft of the R&O and FNPRM last month, which we summarized here.

The R&O is largely unchanged from the draft, with one notable clarification.  In particular, the FCC concluded that senders that designate a reply text as the exclusive means of revoking consent “can satisfy the disclosure requirement by disclosing even just one of the [seven] standardized words [for revoking consent] in each text message.”  For example, a sender can satisfy this requirement “by indicating that recipients can revoke consent by responding ‘stop,’” rather than by listing all seven words that can be used to revoke consent.  But senders still must honor revocation requests made using any of the seven standardized words: “stop,” “quit,” “end,” “revoke,” “opt out,” “cancel,” or “unsubscribe.”

The FNPRM still seeks comment on a range of proposals, including one commenter’s request that senders be allowed to use a confirmation text to request clarification of the category of message from which the consumer intended to revoke consent.  Comments on the FNPRM will be due 30 days after publication in the Federal Register, with reply comments due 30 days after that.

The new rules in the R&O will take effect 30 days after they are published in the Federal Register.