The FCC's (and FTC's) enforcement staff is so limited (and it's the FTC's responsibility to enforce the DNC laws), that they cannot keep up with telemarketing technology advances. With respect to broadcast/streaming services and the sound volume of commercials, the number of potentially bad actors is several magnitudes smaller - and thus…
The FCC's (and FTC's) enforcement staff is so limited (and it's the FTC's responsibility to enforce the DNC laws), that they cannot keep up with telemarketing technology advances. With respect to broadcast/streaming services and the sound volume of commercials, the number of potentially bad actors is several magnitudes smaller - and thus regulation is *much* more easily enforced. Call your Reps and Senators about the loud streaming commercials!
https://www.donotcall.gov/ Which is on the FTC's website - and spam calling is considered a deceptive trade practice. See this from the FCC's site.
Do Not Call
Congress passed the Telephone Consumer Protection Act in 1991 in response to consumer concerns about the growing number of unsolicited telephone marketing calls to their homes and the increasing use of automated and prerecorded messages. In response, the Federal Communications Commission adopted rules requiring anyone making a solicitation call to your home to provide his or her name, the name of the person or entity on whose behalf the call is being made and a telephone number or address at which that person or entity can be contacted.
Working with the Federal Trade Commission, the agency developed the national Do Not Call Registry, which applies to all telemarketers and covers interstate and intrastate telemarketing calls. Commercial telemarketers are not allowed to call you if your number is on the registry, subject to certain exceptions.
The FCC's (and FTC's) enforcement staff is so limited (and it's the FTC's responsibility to enforce the DNC laws), that they cannot keep up with telemarketing technology advances. With respect to broadcast/streaming services and the sound volume of commercials, the number of potentially bad actors is several magnitudes smaller - and thus regulation is *much* more easily enforced. Call your Reps and Senators about the loud streaming commercials!
You file a 1088 form with the FCC for Do Not Call violations, not the FTC.
https://www.donotcall.gov/ Which is on the FTC's website - and spam calling is considered a deceptive trade practice. See this from the FCC's site.
Do Not Call
Congress passed the Telephone Consumer Protection Act in 1991 in response to consumer concerns about the growing number of unsolicited telephone marketing calls to their homes and the increasing use of automated and prerecorded messages. In response, the Federal Communications Commission adopted rules requiring anyone making a solicitation call to your home to provide his or her name, the name of the person or entity on whose behalf the call is being made and a telephone number or address at which that person or entity can be contacted.
Working with the Federal Trade Commission, the agency developed the national Do Not Call Registry, which applies to all telemarketers and covers interstate and intrastate telemarketing calls. Commercial telemarketers are not allowed to call you if your number is on the registry, subject to certain exceptions.