{"id":3950,"date":"2011-12-16T12:54:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T12:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2019-04-12T11:07:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:07:47","slug":"cell-phone-robo-call-legislation-nixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/cell-phone-robo-call-legislation-nixed\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell Phone Robo-call Legislation Nixed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Mobile-Phones.jpg\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2287\" title=\"Mobile Phones\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Mobile-Phones.jpg\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2287 lazyload\" title=\"Mobile Phones\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20180%20120%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Mobile-Phones.jpg\"><\/a>The proposed legislation that would have allowed \u201crobo-calling\u201d to cell phones in the United States has been nixed.  The federal bill would have enabled businesses to place robotic calls via the use of automated dialers to telephones, and then play pre-recorded messages to the new and old cell phones of consumers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">\n<\/p><p>Rep Lee Terry, R-Nebraska, and Rep Ed Towns, D-New York, who had sponsored the bill, have this week asked the House Energy and Commerce Committee\u2019s chairperson to prevent the bill from going through the committee process, thus effectively stopping it.  \u201cWhat we have learned is that there is no hope for this legislation,\u201d the two wrote in the letter to the chairperson.  \u201cWe have heard from our constituents.  They are concerned about what they believe will happen should this legislation become law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">\n<\/p><p>Illinois attorney general Lisa Madigan was one of many consumer advocates who had opposed the bill, describing such robo-calls as being \u201ca bad deal for consumers\u201d.  Madigan noted that the legislation would have \u201copened the floodgates\u201d for consumers to be endlessly annoyed with robotic calls from telemarketers on their mobile phones at all hours of the day\u201d.  \u201cI appreciate everyone who voiced their disapproval of this invasion of our privacy to Congress and stopped this bill,\u201d Madigan said in a statement yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">\n<\/p><p>The bill would have changed 20 years of legislation outlawing auto-dialers and the use of artificial and recorded messages to cell phones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proposed legislation that would have allowed \u201crobo-calling\u201d to cell phones in the United States has been nixed.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1821],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast 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