On January 6, the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau issued an order further extending the effective date of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) “revoke-all” requirement in 47 C.F.R. § 64.1200(a)(10) to January 31, 2027. That provision would require callers to treat a revocation of consent made in response to one type of informational call or text message as applying to all future calls and text messages from that caller on unrelated matters. The Bureau found good cause to continue the waiver while the FCC reviews comments filed in response to its 2025 Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which specifically asks whether the revoke-all rule should be modified or replaced to give consumers more tailored control over unwanted calls. The FCC also noted that requiring companies to implement costly, enterprise-wide changes now could result in unnecessary compliance expenditures if the rule is later revised.

As discussed here, the FCC previously granted a one-year extension of this same requirement, pushing the compliance date from April 11, 2025 to April 11, 2026 in response to operational and cost concerns raised by financial institutions and others. The January 6th order builds on that earlier action by providing a longer runway and explicitly tying the delay to the ongoing rulemaking process.

Implications

The extension is narrow. It applies only to the portion of section 64.1200(a)(10) that would require a single revocation request to cut off all future calls and texts from the caller on unrelated topics. The order does not change any other TCPA rules or prior FCC guidance on revocation. Callers must still honor revocation requests made through reasonable methods and must continue to comply with all existing TCPA consent and revocation obligations, including the keyword-based opt-out mechanisms already moving forward.