The Federal Trade Commission announced updated fees on Tuesday for telemarketers — which can include the BDC and service departments at dealerships — who are accessing phone numbers on the National Do ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) – Some telemarketers are targeting phone numbers on the national "Do Not Call" registry because people are more likely to pick up, experts said. The registry currently has 221 million ...

Two thoughts sprang to mind last week after an Oklahoma federal judge ruled that the Federal Trade Commission had overstepped its authority by creating a national "do-not-call list" against ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal regulators proposed Friday that telemarketers pay millions of dollars to help finance a national ``do not call'' registry of consumers who want to stop sales calls to their ...

WASHINGTON -- Telemarketers will be free to make sales pitches next week to people who registered for the national do-not-call list, the government said Friday. At the same time, the industry's ...

Seventy-five percent of New Yorkers have registered their number in the National Do Not Call Registry but the New York Department of State's Division of Consumer Protection is pushing for more to add ...

Despite the Do Not Call Registry, telemarketers are back and they know where to reach you: on your mobile phone. Here's how to keep them at bay I know I’m not the only one who hates telemarketers. For ...

Like many of you, I've been following the controversy and court cases surrounding the US Federal Trade Commission's creation of a Do Not call List. This list, for those of you not attuned to the issue ...

WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission wants to create a national “do not call” registry, making it illegal for telemarketers to call anyone on that list. And if the registry is created, the advice ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Losing millions of potential customers to a "do-not-call" list will almost certainly mean big layoffs at telemarketing companies, where employees already hang from one of the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The cherished dinner hour void of telemarketers could vanish next year for millions of people when phone numbers begin dropping off the national Do Not Call list. The Federal Trade ...