This clarifies it a bit: A new consumer-privacy rule from the FCC that would block the four large cable operators from sharing customer information with their wireless JV partner, Sprint Nextel, under certain circumstances, but Sprint said the companies currently don’t trade any data that would violate the regulation, reports Multichannel.
Sprint said the FCC’s anti-pretexting rule will not require any changes to the way it works with the MSOs because the members of the JV do not exchange private customer data for the purposes of direct-marketing campaigns. FCC rules will continue to allow exchange of consumers
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