WaPo: Do-Not-Call Compliance Put At 90%

[CShine]

Day two of the national do-not-call registry generated more consumer complaints about unwanted sales calls and prompted top industry officials to warn a handful of firms to stop calling numbers on the list.

The industry also has one fewer company, with Gannett Co.'s telemarketing unit having closed its doors Wednesday.

Though the government-sponsored list is still in legal limbo, the bulk of the telemarketing industry appeared to be complying, said H. Robert Wientzen, president of the Direct Marketing Association, which represents about 80 percent of the firms that make sales calls.

"The bottom line is we think we've stopped about 90 percent of the telemarketing activity" to the more than 50 million numbers on the registry, Wientzen said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36814-2003Oct2.html

[lindashaw]

1. hehe, I had my first telemarketing call last night. The caller identified

herself (after calling my name) and she started to tell me the company she represented, then...click. I stayed on the line, trying to get her back in order to threaten her company, but she was long gone.