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Article: No more robocalls
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- Press-Telegram Long Beach, CA.
- Article date:
- September 7, 2009
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While the Station fire clouded the air last week, there was one
bright spot -- a ban on robocalls.
A new federal rule took effect that prohibits most of the
annoying recorded telemarketing calls that companies use to sell
carpet cleaning services and mortgages, and that interrupt dinner,
clog up answering machines and even eat up minutes on your cell
phone.
"American consumers have made it crystal clear that few things
annoy them more than the billions of commercial telemarketing
robocalls they receive every year," said Jon Leibowitz, chairman of
the Federal Trade Commission, upon announcing the new rule.
There are exceptions, however, to the robocalls. Informational
prerecorded calls are ...