It smells to me like the article is mixing up CTIA (the wireless industry trade organization) and CompTIA, but Motherboard doesn't really cite adequate sources to tell for sure.
I'm the author of this article—both CTIA and CompTIA are lobbying against these bills, but CompTIA is the most actively outspoken.
If you are a member of CompTIA or certified by them or have any thoughts about them please reach out to me (my Twitter DMs are open: twitter.com/jason_koebler ... are Signal numbers allowed on here?), because I'm working on a deeper investigation about the group's shift from a certifications body to a lobbying arm of big tech.
I'm CompTIA A+ certified. It cost me $0 (paid for by an employer when I was 16) and I think I overpaid.
I'm not sure that they have shifted away from being a certification body, they still issue a lot of certifications. I don't think they are considered very valuable certifications though.
There is nothing in the guidelines that says you can't post a cell number, I think you're good.
I was certified as well, anybody could do this sort of thing it's just a scam to take money away from you so you can get a shitty IT job somewhere. Interesting that they lobby extensively though - I had no idea.
Hooray for quality journalism?