Do Not Call Me Here Forever

The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has proposed extending indefinitely the current five-year registration period for telephone numbers listed on the telemarketer-busting and wildly popular, National Do-Not-Call Registry.

Under the new FCC rule, telemarketers will be required to not call registered numbers until the registration is cancelled by the consumer or the phone number is reassigned or disconnected. Under the old rule, registered numbers would have started to expire in June 2008 and could have been dropped from the Registry, unless consumers re-registered them.

When the FCC first announced the Do-Not-Call Registry in June 2003, officials expected no more than about 60 million numbers to be registered by 2008. Wrong. To date, over 145 million numbers have been placed on the Registry.

Telemarketers who persist in calling numbers on the Do-Not-Call Registry can be fined up to $11,000 per call for violating the ban.

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