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For Release: October 17, 2003
FTC Chairman Addresses OECD on Intersection of Competition and Consumer Protection Issues

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Timothy J. Muris and Commissioner Mozelle W. Thompson yesterday met with members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France to discuss the intersection of competition and consumer protection issues. More...

For Your Information: October 16, 2003
FTC Staff: Wisconsin's Unfair Sales Act Likely Raises Gas Prices

In comments provided on October 15 at the request of Wisconsin State Rep. Shirley Krug, the Federal Trade Commission's Office of Policy Planning, Bureau of Competition, and Bureau of Economics stated that Wisconsin's Unfair Sales Act likely leads to significantly higher gasoline prices for Wisconsin's consumers. More...

Consumers on Do Not Call Registry File over 15,000 Complaints Against Telemarketers

Number of Registered Telephones Reaches 53.7 Million

Consumers registered with the National Do Not Call list have filed more than 15,000 complaints against telemarketers who continue to call them.

The Do Not Call list, which opened to consumer registrations on June 27, 2003, currently contains 53.7 million telephone numbers. Telemarketers began accessing the Registry on September 2, 2003, through a Web site specifically developed for telemarketers, telemarketing.donotcall.gov. The telemarketer site permits the user to create an organizational profile that enables them to pay for and obtain the area codes they need, in order to remove registered numbers from their active calling lists. As of October 15, 2003, nearly 21,000 organizations have accessed the Registry with 550 telemarketers downloading all area codes in the Registry. On average, each telemarketer retrieved about 45 area codes from the total national database of 317 area codes.

For enforcement purposes, consumer complaints received into the FTC database are made available to more than 800 law enforcement agencies, including the offices of all state Attorneys General.

Last Updated: Friday, October 17, 2003 12:20 PM

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