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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFCC may allow advertisers to robocall your cellphone.
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
(5,946 posts)brer cat
(24,513 posts)I am going to be a very unhappy camper if I get even more.
drray23
(7,615 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)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
(4,259 posts)there's a real good chance I don't want to talk.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)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
(3,169 posts)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
(13,466 posts)onecent
(6,096 posts)Initech
(100,028 posts)Although as someone who works customer service I can tell you that it is fun to hang up on robo dialers.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)Duval
(4,280 posts)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
(23,946 posts)profile your danger level for further examination.