Latest National Do Not Call List Stories
Every business professional has experienced the frustrations of unsolicited telemarketing sales calls, sometimes staying on the phone for several minutes without realizing they are speaking with a telemarketer. Bizdonotcall.com is the first national B2B do not call registry that stops unwanted telemarketing calls and offers a unique email option instead. Dallas, TX (PRWEB) October 27, 2010...
BOSTON and CONWAY, Ark., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- First Orion, a corporation with a significant intellectual property portfolio dedicated to phone privacy and preference, today announced the availability of the PrivacyStar(TM) application for Canadian BlackBerry® users. PrivacyStar can be downloaded by visiting www.PrivacyStar.com or BlackBerry App World. In App World simply search for PrivacyStar and the download link will be sent via email. PrivacyStar is a simple-to-use mobile app that...
About 80 percent of Canadians who placed their telephone numbers on a do-not-call list report a decrease in telemarketing calls, a marketing survey says. The Marketing Research and Intelligence Association poll of 2,035 people who placed their numbers in the federal database also found 10 percent now receive no telemarketing calls, the Globe and Mail reported Tuesday. Since being introduced last fall, some 6 million of the country's 27 million phone customers have registered their numbers....
Canada's Do Not Call List is back at full speed, registering nearly 2 million people in its first 60 hours, telecommunications regulators said Thursday. A first-day bottleneck that limited access has eased because BCE Inc.'s Bell Canada, which has a five-year contract to operate the list, increased Web and phone capacity, a spokeswoman for the regulatory Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission told United Press International. The Web site received more than 9 million...
Canadians tired of unsolicited telemarketer phone calls rushed Tuesday to register with a national Do Not Call List, telecommunications regulators said. Nearly 400,000 people registered by late afternoon of the list's first day, a spokeswoman for the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, which regulates the list, told United Press International. The volume of requests was so great, with more than 1.5 million attempted registrations, that the online and telephone...
MONTGOMERY -- The timing of the e-mail is as predictable as the changing seasons. Unsuspecting readers open an e-mail with the subject line, "Cell Numbers Go Public Tomorrow REMINDER," or similar wording. It follows with instructions on how to add your cell phone number to the national Do Not Call List to stop calls from telemarketers. The message cautions that if you do not call the number and add your name to the Do Not Call List, telemarketers will call your previously...
