M Paquette
Moderator Emeritus
Oh, frabjous joy! The Distinguished Gentlemen Towns and Terry of the US House of Representatives, Finding Themselves with Time on their Hands, have introduced the following:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr3035ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr3035ih.pdf
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Mobile Informational Call Act of 2011’’. I can thing of other names for it...
What's it mean? Well, according to the folks lobbying for it:
H. R. 3035
A BILL
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to permit informational calls to mobile telephone numbers, and for other purposes.
A BILL
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to permit informational calls to mobile telephone numbers, and for other purposes.
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr3035ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr3035ih.pdf
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Mobile Informational Call Act of 2011’’. I can thing of other names for it...
What's it mean? Well, according to the folks lobbying for it:
Under the TCPA, it is unlawful for a person to use an “automatic telephone dialing system” to call any telephone number assigned to a cellular telephone service without the prior express consent of an individual. H.R. 3035 would clarify the scope of this prohibition in several respects:
- The bill would make clear that oral or written approval by an individual in the context of an established business relationship constitutes “prior express consent” under the Act;
- Commercial calls to cellular telephone numbers would no longer be covered by the prohibition, except to the extent that the calls are “telephone solicitations”; and
- The definition of an “automatic telephone dialing system” would cover only equipment that actually produces and dials randomly generated telephone numbers.