FCC may allow advertisers to robocall your cellphone.

[dixiegrrrrl]

But now the Federal Communications Commission is considering relaxing a key rule and allowing businesses to call or text your cellphones without authorization if they say they called a wrong number. The banking industry and collections industry are pushing for the change.

A broad coalition of 80 consumer groups, including the National Association of Consumer Advocates and the National Consumer Law Center, this week appealed to the FCC to ask the agency to leave the protections intact.
The groups left the FCC with this message:

On behalf of consumers throughout the United States, please --
• Do not reduce the consumer protections of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
• Ensure that industry callers using autodialers to make calls or send texts to cell phones are fully liable when they call wrong numbers and reach consumers who have not provided consent for those calls.
• Maintain the current system of liability for wrong number calls to create incentives for these industry callers to create reliable technologies to enable them to avoid wrong number calls.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/on/fcc-relax-robocall-rule/

[hollysmom]

1. I get enough junk calls on my cell phone NO MORE!!!!! arghhh - Ido not have unlimited calls

[brer cat]

2. We already get a few of these on our cells.

I am going to be a very unhappy camper if I get even more.

[drray23]

3. allowed or not its already happening. nt

[n2doc]

4. I don't answer anymore unless I recognize the number

On home or cell. If someone wants to leave a message I will get back to them, so long as it is not a scam/ad.

[elias49]

8. Same here. I don't know you,

there's a real good chance I don't want to talk.

[sakabatou]

10. Same

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. I have been forced to do the same on my landline

and I do not own a cell.

but for those who buy their own minutes on a cell, this could be an expensive FCC decision.

[dickthegrouch]

5. The wrong number?

How the fuck can they get the wrong number? Robo diallers are not prone to mistakes. The ONLY way they could have the wrong number is if they deliberately put it in wrong.

What a bunch of crap.

FCC needs a real consumer at its head just like the SEC, Banking and Senate Cttee, Consumer Protection bureau and lots of other agencies do.

[bahrbearian]

6. What do you mean start, thats half the reason I don't answer anymore.

[onecent]

7. Dear God, all we need is MORE RULES.......

[Initech]

14. Worse - more advertisements.

Although as someone who works customer service I can tell you that it is fun to hang up on robo dialers.

[City Lights]

9. Fuck the FCC if they allow that.

[Duval]

12. Oh NO! We

get too many calls now! We're on the "do not call" list, but there seem to be quite a few loopholes. I don't answer if I don't know who's calling. So glad to have caller ID.

[Fred Sanders]

13. You can just turn your cell phones off, but then the government could not track you and

profile your danger level for further examination.

[Initech]

15. This is an extremely bad idea, especially for people who have limited minutes.