| Subject: FCC-keep hands off Do Not Call law |
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Betty
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Date Posted: 11:04:27 02/23/05 Wed
In reply to:
Betty
's message, "RIAA & goofy laws." on 17:09:22 02/01/04 Sun
The Federal Communications Commission has no business messing with Indiana's telemarketing law. It works well and evidently to the satisfaction of Hoosiers. It should not be subjected to federal regulatory tinkering that would make it weaker.
The tinkering under consideration would let businesses make sales calls to people with whom they'd had a transaction during the previous 18 months, even those on the state's no-call list. That's 3.5 million Hoosiers.
The petition to the FCC is from the Consumer Bankers Association. Since most people write a check, buy something with a debit card, make a deposit or use an ATM over the course of 550 days, virtually all bank customers would be subject to phone solicitations. So would the customers of many other businesses who no longer would be shielded by the no-call list. The only way to halt the annoyance would be for customers to order individual companies to stop calling.
Attorney General Steve Carter, who campaigned for re-election last year on the success of Indiana's popular Do Not Call law, is making the case to the FCC: Indiana's law shouldn't be weakened to model the federal law, which has the 18-month provision banks are seeking.
The FCC should deny the petition. Better yet, the Consumer Bankers Association should withdraw it. Perhaps it would, if its member banks heard from enough Hoosiers. People can find out if their bank is a member by checking www.cbanet.org.
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