AutoDialing By Telemarketers: Consumers are Given Added Protection

The FCC voted on Thursday to expand the scope of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act  to crack down on robocalls from telemarketers. The agency has indicated that under the rule, companies are barred from telemarketing with “autodialers,” or any type of device with the potential to dial or sequence random numbers, must honor a customer’s request to stop receiving calls at any time and cannot make more than one call to numbers that have been reassigned to different customers, regardless of whether the previous number holder subscribed to the calls.