Biennial Report to Congress Pursuant to the Do Not Call Registry Fee Extension Act of 2007

摘要

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) submits this report pursuant to Section 4(b) of the Do-Not-Call Registry Fee Extension Act of 2007 (Fee Extension Act).1 The Fee Extension Act directs the FTC, in consultation with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to submit a report to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce concerning: (1) the effectiveness of do-not-call outreach and enforcement efforts with regard to senior citizens and immigrant communities; (2) the impact of the exceptions to the do-not-call registry on businesses and consumers, including an analysis of the effectiveness of the registry and consumer perceptions of the registrys effectiveness; and (3) the impact of abandoned calls made by predictive dialing devices on do-not-call enforcement. During fiscal year (FY) 2009, over 18 million new registrations were received, and approximately 45,000 sellers, telemarketers, and exempt organizations subscribed to access the National Registry. Close to 4,000 of those entities paid fees totaling more than $15.5 million. In addition, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), in conjunction with the primary contractor in charge of the Registry and the subcontractor responsible for identifying numbers on the Registry that should be removed, implemented a new procedure for tracking disconnected and reassigned phone numbers. This new procedure addresses problems that may arise as a result of new telecommunications technologies or of the increased ease of porting telephone numbers from one telephone service provider to another.