New bill will legalize junk faxes. 47 USC 227 makes it illegal to send unsolicited commercial faxes, a good idea considering it costs the recipient money in supplies and maintenance; this new bill guts the existing law.

This is also the law that bans telephone solicitations to cell phones and pagers. Those sections of the law are untouched by this bill, but I don't see a difference in the general logic, and would expect the passage of this bill to encourage similar attacks on those other, more popular communication services.