Showing posts with label California utilities panel cancels planned 'text tax' vote after FCC rules that texting is an 'information service'. Show all posts
Showing posts with label California utilities panel cancels planned 'text tax' vote after FCC rules that texting is an 'information service'. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 18, 2018


By Daily Mail, Dec. 16, 2018

Following a new FCC ruling, the California Public Utilities Commission has ditched its planned 2019 vote on taxing text messaging. 

The CPUC revealed on Twitter Friday that it has decided not to go forward with a scheduled January 2019 vote to levy a 'text tax' following the FCC's ruling that text messages were an 'information service' — as opposed to a telecommunications service — meaning that texts aren't eligible for taxation under California state law.