New FCC Rules Regarding Automated Telemarketing Calls

[Bob Klee]

Folks,

This has been all over the news today.

"Those aggravating automated telemarketing calls will be interrupting your dinner a lot less often. After receiving thousands of complaints from consumers, the Federal Communications Commission clamped down Wednesday on unwanted robo-calling by approving sweeping changes to its telemarketing rules for wireline and mobile phones."

Key Point: "Under the new FCC rules, telemarketers are required to obtain written consent, which can be in the form of an online approval, before placing autodialed or prerecorded calls to a consumer."

And: "The FCC also eliminated the "established business relationship" exception, which had allowed robo-calls to be placed to the land-line home phones of consumers with "prior or existing" associations with companies represented by telemarketers."

Article HERE:

For those that know, what changes will all of us have to make in the way we do business?

 

[Josh]

This doesn't change anything: FTC Robo Call Ban | Auto Dialer Services

The only thing this is doing is making more clear a law that is already on the books. Some insurance agents, including members of this forum, have been under the misguided impression that insurance companies, and by extension insurance agents, enjoy an exemption on this rule. On the link there is an article I wrote about this before the "New FCC Rules" were passed. The bottom line is that this really doesn't change anything, it just makes it clear that there is no exemption for calls making sales, regardless of the industry. For a more lengthy explanation I spent two or three hours putting together, checkout FTC Robo Call Ban | Auto Dialer Services .