Not for profit companies are exempt from the new rules, and the new rules only apply to those companies that deal in
interstate telemarketing.
Not exact matches
For example, the debt relief law dismissed above is an amendment to the
Telemarketing Sales Rule and only applies to those for - profit settlement firms who sign customers up via
interstate telephone calls.
The TSR applies to virtually all «
telemarketing,» defined to mean «a plan, program, or campaign which is conducted to induce the purchase of goods or services or a charitable contribution, by use of one or more telephones and which involves more than one
interstate telephone call.»
In a separate but similar effort, on June 26, 2003, the FCC announced final amendments to its
telemarketing rules that would, among other things, prohibit intrastate calls to any person on the National Do - Not - Call registry, in addition to the prohibition against
interstate calls established under the FTC rule.
Two federal agencies, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), regulate
interstate and intrastate
telemarketing.
The
telemarketing rules apply to both
interstate calls and calls made within a state (as a result of rules issued by the Federal Communications Commission).