The National Do-Not-Call Registry exceeded 145 million telephone numbers in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2007. This reflects an increase of more than 19 million telephone numbers registered to avoid unwanted telemarketing calls, according to an annual report submitted to Congress by the Federal Trade Commission, as mandated by law.
Consumers either called a toll free number or registered their telephone numbers online. More than 11.6 million telephone numbers added to the federal database came from 18 states that contributed telephone numbers from do-not-call registries operated at the state level.
Last year the do-not-call database was used by approximately 66,000 telemarketing and other organizations to purge telephone numbers from calling lists. More than $21.6 million in fees were paid for access to the database. Fees were waived for 59,337 entities accessing data for five or fewer area codes.
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