FCC adopts new rules against 'robocalls'

I think telemarketing is outdated and should be banned all together. I like the get tough approach and hope it works, I hate these calls.

They need to include collection companies. I have been getting calls for people who do not live at my number for over a year now, and they always want me to call them, and I can not hit Zero or anything to get a person. Plus they do not even say who they are calling for.

So what. The FCC is not enforcing the rules in place now. I get unwanted calls every day from companies I never dealt with even though I have been on the Do Not Call list since it started. When I ask the caller why he is calling when I'm on the list they are always prevent to not know about the list. Asking to be taken off their calling list does nothing. BTW, if you have not renewed your phone number on the Do Not Call list, it may have dropped off after a couple of years. Mine had at one point about a year ago.

What about robocalls using false and invalid caller ID? I've been getting a lot of those lately.

How about passing a law that would make it illegal to use fake numbers on the caller ID?
I get calls all the time from telemarketers and if you call them back to ask them to remvoe you from their list you get a recording saying the number does not exist!

But robocalls from political candidates are still allowed, right? Double standards!

Require companies to call from a registered number that shows up on a caller ID. I should easily have the option to press a key and the phone company should never forward that call again. I would love to be able to access my phone account and see a list of numbers that I had blocked and manage from there.

they still will not obey the law since there is little policing of them. For years now I get the same "there are no problems with your credit card......" the robo call is from one company and routes the call to their sister company call center in Florida. Does not matter how many times you use the automated do not call or ask the agents (if they even stay on the line once they know there is no commission to be made). Some months i get daily calls others bi-weekly.

About time!!!! I get 4 or 5 robo calls a day on my land line and more annoyingly on my cell phone. They won't show who is calling; don't leave messages if you let it ring through to voice mail; and sometimes when you do pick up they have some idiotic recording asking you to press some number; of course it is thieves because they are asking you to press numbers without even identifying who the heck they are.

Jail isn't quite good enough for the owners of these robo calling mills. There are things made for corporal punishment; public lashings, and this is one of them. Tie them to a telephone poll and let all who wish take one swing.

Now if they will do away with the robo-political calls infesting the phone lines....

OK. Now what about their efforts to allow telemarketers to call cell phones? Any news on that?

Do not call list is a joke, they still call continually! Laws with no teeth are a dumber then Congress!

You still can't beat an outdated, old answering machine screening those telemarketer or even bill collector calls. I especially love how the old answering machine fools their automated out-dialers every time. Once a dialer hears the answering machine outgoing message, it always connects the call on through to either a "robo" announcement or a live person who finds themself yelling, "Hello, hello!" into the machine. My "robo" for your "robo". ;o)

Now if they'd ban the political robocalls...

Fat lot of good this will do. Most of these calls are to numbers already on the DNC. These crooks certainly don't care, and they don't ever seem to get caught, so why should they?

This is all really stupid. You get on the DO NOT CALL LIST, and you still get robocalls. But the FCC says that now you can opt out of these calls that you should not be getting at all in the first place. I think that that is about the size of it.

The majority of calls I get are from charities (who are, I assume, still exempt from most of these regulations), the Red Cross (who really love my platelets), and boiler room outfits that ignore the laws anyway ("This is Rachel/Nicole/Michelle/etc. from Credit Services..."). And one bunch who presumably got my name from a diabetes website who keep wanting to sell me no-name testers and strips - they also smell of the boiler, actually.

This may keep my credit cards and bank from unsolicited calls to sell me identity protectionm mortgage insurance, refinancing analyses (for pity's sake, I refi'd the mortgage in December - a bit early to see if I "qualify" for a lower rate, innit?). That would be nicem but they aren't that frequent.

End all exemptions! I want robocalls Terminated!

Another law to ignore? I'm on the do not call list and they still keep on calling. I have no intent to do any business with anyone who does not obey the law, I also include the politicians that conveniently exempted themselves. I pay for my phone for my convenience, not theirs.

For the love of God, please get rid of the political exception prior to the General election!