ECFS Comment Upload

The Form at the bottom of this page will allow you to quickly and easily file comments
on pending matters before the FCC

Currently, there is a pending petition by the debt collection industry asking to create an exemption from
existing law, and allow them to make prerecorded and autodialed calls to cell phones.
Deadline is May 11, 2006 (althought late-filed comments may be accepted).

Here are some general thoughts you may want to address in your comments.
Please do not “cut and paste.” Make your comments original in your own words or else they may not be fully considered.

The TCPA is not just a telemarketing law. It was enacted both to regulate certain telemarketing practices as well as to regulate practices outside telemarketing such as the use of pre-recorded message calls and autodialers regardless of the message being delivered in the call.
People carry cell phones with them into places where regular phones never go, so the invasion of privacy from uninvited calls to cell phones is greater, and can even be a danger – such as when cell phones are carried in the car.
Uninvited calls to cell phones impose a cost the recipient and generate tremendous outrage, particularly when they are autodialed or pre-recorded message calls.
Autodialed or pre-recorded message calls made to cell phones are an invasion of privacy regardless of whether the call is a telemarketing call, a debt collection call, or any other kind of uninvited call.
Automated calls made to a cell phone or other service where the recipient has to pay to receive the call is already illegal and should remain so.
No one should be exempt from the current requirement in the TCPA that proper identification of the caller be given in all pre-recorded telephone calls.
Debt collectors should comply with the identification requirements for pre-recorded calls. If they can not, then they should call with a live person on the line.
If a debt is no longer legally enforceable, then an established business relationship no longer exists between the debtor and creditor.
Debt collectors should not be able to call a debtor’s cell phone unless they were given express permission to call that cell phone number by the debtor.

This is a simplified version of the FCC form.
If you prefer, you can use the original FCC form located here.
If you use the FCC's original form, remember you MUST enter "02-278" in the proceeding field or else it will be mis-filed

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Your Comments
Type your comments in this box. If you are entering over 70 characters on one line be sure to press your carriage return to ensure proper line-wrapping. I have read many of the comments already filed.	Here are some general thoughts you may want to address in your comments. Please do not “cut and paste.” Make your comments original in your own words or else they may not be fully considered. The TCPA is not just a telemarketing law. It was enacted both to regulate certain telemarketing practices as well as to regulate practices outside telemarketing such as the use of pre-recorded message calls and autodialers regardless of the message being delivered in the call. People carry cell phones with them into places where regular phones never go, so the invasion of privacy from uninvited calls to cell phones is greater, and can even be a danger – such as when cell phones are carried in the car. Uninvited calls to cell phones impose a cost the recipient and generate tremendous outrage, particularly when they are autodialed or pre-recorded message calls. Autodialed or pre-recorded message calls made to cell phones are an invasion of privacy regardless of whether the call is a telemarketing call, a debt collection call, or any other kind of uninvited call. Automated calls made to a cell phone or other service where the recipient has to pay to receive the call is already illegal and should remain so. No one should be exempt from the current requirement in the TCPA that proper identification of the caller be given in all pre-recorded telephone calls. Debt collectors should comply with the identification requirements for pre-recorded calls. If they can not, then they should call with a live person on the line. If a debt is no longer legally enforceable, then an established business relationship no longer exists between the debtor and creditor. Debt collectors should not be able to call a debtor’s cell phone unless they were given express permission to call that cell phone number by the debtor.