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SMS complianceReviewed September 7, 2026

What is SMS quiet hours?

The cited US federal provision restricts covered telephone solicitations and telemarketing texts before 8 a.m. or after 9 p.m. in the recipient's local time.

Who this applies to#

  • The provision is scoped to covered telephone solicitations and telemarketing texts

What SMS quiet hours requires#

  • Covered solicitations must respect 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. recipient-local boundaries in the cited provision

What this does not require#

  • The cited provision is not a universal legal sending window for all SMS worldwide

Common mistakes#

  1. Applying the federal baseline worldwide
  2. Ignoring recipient local time

SMS quiet hours checklist#

  • Identify covered traffic
  • Resolve recipient local time
  • Check other applicable rules

OnVoard's take#

Quiet hours are a scoped legal baseline, so preserve the covered-traffic and recipient-local-time qualifiers.

Official sources#