Cell Phones: National "Do Not Call" List

[Martyd3]

FYI ~ beginning today, September 19, 2008, cell phone numbers will be released to telemarketing companies. To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone:

Tel: 888.382.1222 = the National

[snoxx]

that sounds like it will be a hassle....

In Italy, telemarketing comapnies call all the time.. guess they get the phones from the directories.. and damn they are painful people to deal with!!!!

[freddy333]

The donotcall registry is another great idea that got implemented poorly, to the point of being completely ineffective.

It is still probably worth registering your phone anyway, but you have to be aware that the registry is so full of exemptions & loopholes that a telemarketer would have to be pretty stupid not to be able to find a legal way to continue business as usual. And you also have to be aware that most telemarketers, like most gun-toting criminals, ignore the law anyway. So the registry is not going to stop them from phoning. Worse than that, if you register a complaint about a telemarketer, the registry is completely powerless to do anything when you register a complaint. It is just a registry, a source of info that your attorney (assuming you want to hire 1) can tap into to help build a case.

In the end, the donotcall registry is just the usual window dressing, another expensive (& ineffective) program that politicians can point to say they have heard the voters' complaints & did something.

[Martyd3]

The donotcall registry is another great idea that got implemented poorly, to the point of being completely ineffective.

It is still probably worth registering your phone anyway, but you have to be aware that the registry is so full of exemptions & loopholes that a telemarketer would have to be pretty stupid not to be able to find a legal way to continue business as usual. And you also have to be aware that most telemarketers, like most gun-toting criminals, ignore the law anyway. So the registry is not going to stop them from phoning. Worse than that, if you register a complaint about a telemarketer, the registry is completely powerless to do anything when you register a complaint. It is just a registry, a source of info that your attorney (assuming you want to hire 1) can tap into to help build a case.

In the end, the donotcall registry is just the usual window dressing, another expensive (& ineffective) program that politicians can point to say they have heard the voters' complaints & did something.

Actually, it is very effective. I rarely get phone calls on my home line and I never get them twice (from the same company). The fines are very hefty and businesses do get accessed.

[wombat247]

Thanks for spreading the manure.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/cell411.asp

[trailboss99]

We have a DNC registery here in OZ that works very well indeed. If they do call folk on the register they are jumped on, hard. Yhe only eccptions are charities, political partys and the handfull of registed polling companys.

Col.