| Comment Number: | OL-110083 |
| Received: | 12/13/2004 8:28:30 PM |
| Organization: | |
| Commenter: | Allen |
| State: | NY |
| 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 have 10+ years of experience consulting to small businesses, home offices and private individuals in the area of information technology. Based on my experience, permitting pre-recorded marketing messages to cell phones by "companies with whom one has done business" will be exploited and abused by said "companies" and other opportunistic individuals and entities. I believe that such abuse will severely diminish the value, efficiency and experience of cellular phone communications currently enjoyed by both consumers and businesses that utilize celluar communications. I believe that this will lead to increased costs on behalf of celluar carriers who will pass this onto cosumers in the form of higher prices. Ultimately, I believe that this will hurt the celluar communications industry. I cannot imagine that any user of celluar communications would agree to these provisions. Therefore, I feel that these provisions can only be attempts to pander to interests of the telemarketing industry who doesn't want to be locked out of what they see as a pig waiting for slaughter.