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Nationwide No-Call List Being Launched Today
Aired June 27, 2003 - 07:08 ET
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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: If you've had those dinner hours interrupted, you'll be interested in this next story. A new nationwide no-call list is being launched today. Sixty million people who want to keep telemarketers from phoning their homes are expected to sign up in the first year alone. The registry is more than a year in the making. It will be inaugurated this morning at the White House.
Our senior White House correspondent, John King, is there to tell us exactly who the White House doesn't want phoning home there in the middle of their dinner hour.
John -- good morning.
JOHN KING, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Maybe my name is on the list, Daryn. I don't know.
The president thinks this one will be quite popular with consumers across the country, so no surprise at all that a Rose Garden ceremony to unveil this policy new today. It is adopted by the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission.
Essentially if you are annoyed by telemarketers, you now have some options to try to prevent those calls. This is a national do not call list. If you want to register your phone at home, you can do so by calling up. You can dial 1-888-382-1222. Or the easiest way, especially if you want to register more than one phone, is log on to donotcall.gov. That Web site probably to be a bit congested today.
Now, after this policy takes effect October 1, if a telemarketer calls your house and you're on the list, they could face fines of up to $11,000 per call. And, as you noted, the Federal Trade Commission expects some 60 million households to sign up as this new policy is unveiled.
Now, it is not perfect. You can still get calls from charities and other nonprofit groups. Political parties can still call you. Polling, survey companies can still call you. But this is considered a great advance for those who feel annoyed by telemarketing calls, and the president will take part in the ceremony today, unveiling what the White House believes will be a policy greatly welcomed by the American people -- Daryn.
KAGAN: OK, John, before we let you go, why don't we tell the folks at home that phone number one more time? Because I bet -- there it is. Put it up there.
KING: 1-888-382-1222.
KAGAN: If you don't want to be interrupted during that dinner hour or any other hour by those telemarketers. John, thank you for that.
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Aired June 27, 2003 - 07:08 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: If you've had those dinner hours interrupted, you'll be interested in this next story. A new nationwide no-call list is being launched today. Sixty million people who want to keep telemarketers from phoning their homes are expected to sign up in the first year alone. The registry is more than a year in the making. It will be inaugurated this morning at the White House.
Our senior White House correspondent, John King, is there to tell us exactly who the White House doesn't want phoning home there in the middle of their dinner hour.
John -- good morning.
JOHN KING, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Maybe my name is on the list, Daryn. I don't know.
The president thinks this one will be quite popular with consumers across the country, so no surprise at all that a Rose Garden ceremony to unveil this policy new today. It is adopted by the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission.
Essentially if you are annoyed by telemarketers, you now have some options to try to prevent those calls. This is a national do not call list. If you want to register your phone at home, you can do so by calling up. You can dial 1-888-382-1222. Or the easiest way, especially if you want to register more than one phone, is log on to donotcall.gov. That Web site probably to be a bit congested today.
Now, after this policy takes effect October 1, if a telemarketer calls your house and you're on the list, they could face fines of up to $11,000 per call. And, as you noted, the Federal Trade Commission expects some 60 million households to sign up as this new policy is unveiled.
Now, it is not perfect. You can still get calls from charities and other nonprofit groups. Political parties can still call you. Polling, survey companies can still call you. But this is considered a great advance for those who feel annoyed by telemarketing calls, and the president will take part in the ceremony today, unveiling what the White House believes will be a policy greatly welcomed by the American people -- Daryn.
KAGAN: OK, John, before we let you go, why don't we tell the folks at home that phone number one more time? Because I bet -- there it is. Put it up there.
KING: 1-888-382-1222.
KAGAN: If you don't want to be interrupted during that dinner hour or any other hour by those telemarketers. John, thank you for that.
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