Federal Deception Law: 6.3.4.3.3 Legislative history and the purpose of the TCPA’s autodialer restriction
Callers might object to this interpretation on the basis that the Facebook decision refers to the sequential number generator portion of the ATDS definition as targeted toward equipment that ties up multiple lines of a business simultaneously,210 which might imply that a device is an ATDS only if it produces consecutive telephone numbers. However, the Court never represented this concern as the only problem that the restrictions on autodialers were intended to address.