Totallyrad

In the very near future telemarketers will start calling and soliciting you on your cell phones. This is legal and it costs you money unless you register your phone numbers on the "do not call" registry! If you have not registered your phone numbers you can do it a couple of ways. You can call a toll free number from the phone you wish to register OR you can go to the web page and register 3 numbers at a time. You will receive an e-mail and you have to open the link in the e-mail within 72 hours to confirm the registration. The toll free number and the web site can be found here. https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx

t-boe

Been there done that a long time ago. The first telemarketer that calls me on my cell will get the butt chewing of his/her life.

Dieseldude4x4

Usually the first several words out of my mouth on a telemarketer will make them hang up and never call again.

hubmonkey

Lock it up!

This is not true and has been a internet rumor for a long time...

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/cell411.asp

Hub

Totallyrad

The two paragraphs below are copied directly from the FTC's web site and dated April 15, 2005. This link is provided by Snopes and obtained from the link in your post above. If you read carefully, you will notice that the urgency is in question but not the ability. The telemarketers are barred from using auto-dialers. Because auto-dialers are used by most of them, that is what makes it illegal for most, but not all of them to call. If you have information to the contrary, please post it, I'd like to know. Thanks, Rick

From the FTC's website:
If you’ve received an e-mail telling you that your cell phone is about to be assaulted by telemarketing calls as a result of a new cell phone number database, rest assured that this is not the case. Telemarketing to cell phone numbers has always been illegal in most cases and will continue to be so. In response to recent e-mail campaigns urging consumers to place their cell phone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry, the Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission issue this advisory to give consumers the facts.


FCC regulations prohibit telemarketers from using automated dialers to call cell phone numbers. Automated dialers are standard in the industry, so most telemarketers are barred from calling consumers on their cell phones without their consent.

hubmonkey

If anyone feels the need to register their cell phone number, go right ahead.

Let me just say this. This email has been circulated around the internet for years. I have had the same cell phone number for more than 6 years and have never received ANY telemarketer calls and I have even ported then number to two different providers over the years. Not one! I use this number for business and personal. I have used it for contact info on everything.

With that said I hope people will read this post and make their own mind up if they want to panic and start following advice in an internet discussion forum.

As for bolding "Most".. well let me tell everyone that there are companies that offshore cold calling from India and they call my home phone that has been on the Oklahoma (which has been in existance longer than the government one) do not call list and the Federal do not calls list.

I would suggest that if you think you need to register your cell number call your cell provider and check out their privacy policies first.

Also if you do receive a telemarketer call you can call your cell companies customer service center and get credit for the 1 minute used in hanging up on them.

Hub

chaikwa

I use my cell phone pretty much the same way you use yours. I haven't had any CALLS from telemarketers, but I have received 6 text messages from companies trying to sell me a mortgage. I don't even use the text messaging aspect of my phone, and in fact didn't know I HAD text messaging! And on top of it all, I'm not in the market for a mortgage, never even applied for one!

Nextel has taken the text messaging charges off the bill for me, but not without a fight.

chaikwa.

stock03

I get text messages too from telemarketers. Sometimes a bunch one week, then none for several weeks.

JKM

Telemarketers always come up as unknown , or usually blocked ID on the home phone, and i don't answer blocked or unknown ID on my cell phone , if it is someone Important , I have Voice mail.

bkrukow

Ive had the same cell number for many years and never once received a call from a telemarketer on it. Now my budie on the other hand gets them non stop and I have no idea how or why he does but its his only phone and we think his ex wife may have given the number out to tick him off but we realy dont know for sure. I have been told one thing that makes me wonder. I heard that if you text back to one of those comercials you see on TV to get some joke of the day or free ring tones that they may use that to get your number and start soliciting that way. No idea of how true it is but it would open the dore for them to start at least text messeging you.