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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) opened the National Do Not Call Registry in order to comply with the Do-Not-Call Implementation Act of 2003 (Pub. L. 108–10 (text), was H.R. 395, and codified at 15 U.S.C. § 6101 et seq.), sponsored by Representatives Billy Tauzin and John Dingell and signed into law by President George W. Bush on March 11 ...
The laws regulating driving (or "distracted driving") may be subject to primary enforcement or secondary enforcement by state, county or local authorities. [1]All state-level cell phone use laws in the United States are of the "primary enforcement" type — meaning an officer may cite a driver for using a hand-held cell phone without any other traffic offense having taken place — except in ...
When Congress passed the TCPA in 1991, it delegated the do-not-call rules to the FCC. Congress suggested that the FCC's do-not-call regulations "may require the establishment and operation of a single national database." [6] The FCC did not adopt a single national database but rather required each company to maintain its own do-not-call ...
Filanity Corp., a California company that hawks telephone calling cards, agreed to pay Missouri $36,000 after being accused of soliciting consumers on the state's No-Call List. Filanity was ...
Bank of America agreed to pay $195,000 in a settlement with the state of Missouri for making telemarketing calls to people who had put their names on a do-not-call list. Consumers who signed up ...
In 2003 Congress passed a law creating the do not call registry, listing telephone numbers of families demanding that telemarketers not contact them. I signed up that year and just verified I am ...
So far, no reason has been given for the outages. More: Tens of thousands report AT&T service outage; Verizon and T-Mobile users also claim issues. Many rural residents, workers depend on cell service
The two original area codes for Missouri in 1947 were 314 and 816. Area code 417 was split off from 816 in 1950, and the other area codes followed more than 40 years later, due to the proliferation of Cellular Phones and Pagers.