| Comment Number: | OL-111523 |
| Received: | 12/21/2004 12:46:21 PM |
| Organization: | |
| Commenter: | Howard Wyler |
| State: | FL |
| Subject: | Trade Regulation Rule on Telemarketing Sales |
| Title: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| CFR Citation: | 16 CFR Part 310 |
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Comments:
I vigorously object to the proposed amendment of the telemarketing sales rule to allow telemarketing calls that deliver a prerecorded message to consumers with whom the seller on whose behalf the calls are made has an established business relationship wether on my home phone or cellular phone lines. I also vigorously object to enactment of a petition submitted by the Direct Marketing Association to amend the TSR’s call abandonment safe harbor provision that currently requires use of "technology that ensures abandonment of no more than three (3) percent of all calls answered by a person, "measured per day per calling campaign" substituting the phrase "measured over a 30-day period.