The Federal Trade Commission surprised DMers yesterday by speeding up telephone registration for its national do-not-call registry.
The process that originally was going to be rolled out over eight weeks this summer will be cut down to two weeks in July.
Phone registration will be available on July 1 for consumers west of the Mississippi River, including Minnesota and Louisiana. The rest of the country can begin signing up one week later.
The rest of the FTC timetable will remain the same, an agency spokesperson said. Companies will be required to scrub their lists using the registry in September. Online registration will start on or around July 1.
An FTC spokesperson said that a phased rollout had initially been planned to prevent too many calls coming in on one day. But the agency
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