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Businesses Beware: The Do Not Call Clock is Ticking; Impending Deadline of Oct. 1, 2003, Has Businesses Seeking DNC Compliance Solutions to Protect Consumers and Themselves.

Publication: PR Newswire
Publication Date: 24-SEP-03 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Sprint and Gryphon Networks are reminding businesses engaged in outbound calls to consumers that they have one week to comply with the national Do-Not-Call (DNC) registry provisions of the Amended Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR). Beginning on Oct. 1, 2003, most businesses will be prohibited from calling a number listed on the national DNC registry, which presently represents 48.4 million phone numbers, or approximately 29 percent of the total residential numbers in the United States today. The Federal Trade Commission projects 60 million phone numbers will be on the national DNC registry by the Oct. 1, 2003, compliance deadline.

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The national DNC registry is designed to protect consumer privacy, but since states may still enforce their own more restrictive laws on intrastate calls, most telephone solicitors and outbound telemarketers must also comply with coexisting state DNC regulations, making DNC...

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