Public Service Announcement: Do Not Call Registry

[beetiger]

If you registered your phone number with the National Do Not Call Registry when the program started in 2002, you need to re-register. Phone numbers automatically drop off the list after five years, in theory to allow people who change their numbers and get recycled numbers to have the option of enjoying unsolicited sales offers by phone :P.

The good news is that it's easy to re-register.Here, have a link.

Comments

Re: Solution to telemarketing:

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Can't they call mobile phones just as easily?

Re: Solution to telemarketing:

[krdbuni.livejournal.com]

Actually, no, because you pay for incoming calls as well as outgoing. They can call landlines because you pay a flat fee to have the phone, but incoming calls are free. Since it costs the customer money to be called on a cell phone, it's against the FCC regulations to call cellphones for marketing purposes.

At least, that's my understanding of the laws and I can say I've never gotten a cold call before on my mobile. I've gotten calls from companies when I forgot that I asked to be notified for things, but those are opt-in relationships into which I opted by mistake.

Kristy