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An appeals court threw out part of a Federal Communications Commission regulation aimed at reducing automated telephone pitches, weakening a 2015 effort to squelch the scourge of so-called robocalls.

The rule was aimed at calls generated by auto-dialing devices. But its language was too broad, and could be construed to prohibit calls from any smartphone, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in a unanimous opinion Friday.

“Consumers, already inundated by robocalls, will be hit with even more unwanted calls,” Maureen Mahoney, policy analyst for Consumers Union, the advocacy division of Consumer Reports, said in an emailed statement.

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