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This 3-page paper discusses the technology that eventually prompted passage of the Do Not Call Implementation Act of 2003. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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child with his or her homework, or are just chilling out, the phone rings and a friendly voice (pre-recorded or not) on the other end tells you about discounts on
carpet cleaning or lawn care, or reminds you that a bill is due. The Do-Not-Call Implementation Act of 2003 was passed to, in part, prevent those unwanted calls from telemarketers
(Do-Not-Call Implementation Act Law & Legal Definition, 2012). This eventually led to the Do Not Call Registry - consumers logging onto the registry and listing their phone numbers are making
the statement that they do NOT want to be disturbed by unwanted telemarketing. There are, of course, exceptions to the act; if the company calling has any kind of previous
relationship with the consumer, it can call. Furthermore, charitable organizations are exempt from the act - this means, in a sense, that a consumer can have his number listed on
the Do Not Call registry, but still be subject to a lot of calls from, say, the March of Dimes or Leukemia/Lymphoma Society of America.
To understand how the Do-Not-Call Implementation Act came about, its a good idea to look at the history behind telemarketing and its technology. The act was a final
piece of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 which, in turn, was passed because of the technology phenom known as autodialing or its more official name, predictive dialing. Predictive
dialing collects random, computer-generated phone numbers, prints them out, and then allows either human beings or auto-callers to dial them with s specific message.
The earliest predictive dialers were stand-alone systems used mainly by banks for telemarketing or collections purposes (History of the Predictive Dialer, 2006). Throughout much of the 20th century,
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