| Comment Number: | OL-103460 |
| Received: | 11/28/2004 11:15:09 AM |
| Organization: | |
| Commenter: | grady early |
| State: | TX |
| 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 oppose any rules or modification of rules that would tend to result in increasing the number of unsolicited telephone calls that I receive. And "established business relationship" does not make the call any less unsolicited. I can very well contact any business when I feel the need to do so; I do not appreciate calls made when THEY feel the need to do so. Further, there is no difference in annoyance level when the call is pre-recorded rather than "live." Indeed, the fact that the message is pre-recorded no doubt guarantees that "established business relationship" is not the purpose of the call. Further, I am firmly committed to the proposition that federal regulatory agencies such as the FTC have as their primary duty the protection of the general public rather than the protection of the entities being regulated. Let's not go back, for example, to the bad old days when Lyndon Johnson could use money from his Texas oil buddies to ensure that natural gas prices were unregulated even in the face of Supreme Court decisions to the contrary. Would you really enjoy the spectacle of the Supreme Court directing the FTC to do its job? cheers grady early 28 November 2004