The FTC said it would propose to add a new section to the Telemar...
The FTC said it would propose to add a new section to the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) that would impose fees on entities accessing the national “do-not-call” registry. The amendments, if adopted, among other things would: (1) Require only…
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sellers to pay the annual fee for access to the national registry. (2) Propose an annual fee of $29 per area code, with a maximum annual fee of $7,250. (3) Allow free access to up to 5 area codes. (4) Set Oct. 1 as the effective date for the “do-not-call” provisions of the Amended TSR. The Commission said additional revisions in the Amended TSR “would allow more entities to access the ‘do-not-call’ registry” while limiting access only to telemarketers, as currently defined by the rule, would prevent parties that were exempt from the FTC’s jurisdiction from obtaining the information necessary to scrub their lists in case they decided to do so for customer-service reasons. Limited access also could prevent sellers from fully complying with the rule, and “may unnecessarily hinder the services provided to the telemarketing industry by list brokers and others,” the FTC said. It stressed, however, that the information in the national registry could be used for no purpose other than to stop unwanted telemarketing calls. The FTC asked 3rd parties for comments.