| Comment Number: | OL-111626 |
| Received: | 12/21/2004 4:04:51 PM |
| Organization: | |
| Commenter: | Fred Hoover |
| State: | IL |
| Subject: | Trade Regulation Rule on Telemarketing Sales |
| Title: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| CFR Citation: | 16 CFR Part 310 |
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Comments:
I just read a very disturbing article about the FTC's possible intent to capitulate to the FCC on the prerecorded message EBR, Telemarketing Project No. R411001. As a member of the consumer do-not-call registry, I absolutely oppose this possible change in your regulations. The spirit and intent of the do-not-call registry is to limit the unwanted intrusion of telemarketers into our homes and our personal lives. The existing exceptions are already intrusive enough. Allowing corporations to automate more of their calls would be too intrusive and would undermine the very spirit of the registry. There is a very real risk this would put consumers back into the unenviable and ineffective position of having to rely on individual corporations to place consumers on their do-not-call lists. This did not work in the past and will not work in the future. These corporations are not interested in the consumers interests, and evidently in this matter, neither is the FCC. The FTC's existing policy is in our interest! If the FCC cannot , or will not, comply with the obvious intent of the do-not-call registry, then the FTC must resist caving in to corporate desires. If this results in interagency disagreement then let it be. If the problem needs to be resolved, then do so by allowing congress to take up this matter. Hopefully in the open political debate the consumers interests will be better served. Once again I reiterate, the FTC's existing regulations are correct. Please do not let the FCC's intransigency dissuade you from doing what is correct and proper. Sincerly, Fred Hoover