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Fine text The federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) governs how companies may communicate with consumers via text message, calls to mobile devices and prerecorded messages to landlines.

The plaintiffs argued that Microsoft violated the TCPA because “[i]nstead of obtaining express written consent prior to sending repeated text message solicitations, Microsoft lures potential ...

Under the TCPA, an unsolicited advertisement must “advertis[e] the commercial availability or quality of any property, goods, or services.” 11 A telephone solicitation must have “the purpose ...