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[ NNSquad ] Re: Bill Introduced To Let Robots Call Your Cellphone - The Consumerist
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:55:24 -0700 Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com> wrote: > > Bill Introduced To Let Robots Call Your Cellphone - The Consumerist > > http://j.mp/pZWrnd (Consumerist) > > "Last week, a bill was introduced to change that. While in the past > email hoaxes have gone around saying that your cellphone could be > opened up to telemarketers, HR 3035 seeks to let businesses > contact your cellphone "for informational purposes."" > > - - - > > Can anyone cite statistics that agree with the statement made in > support of this legislation that: > > "most wireless consumers are now covered by flat-rate plans" > Let's not forget that many non-rich people, whose numbers are increasing, use prepaid phone service. Many prepaid phone plans are pay-by-the-minute. HR 3035 continues the tradition of "make the rich richer and the poor poorer". If by some miracle they could make sales calls to cell phones opt-in, who would opt-in? Maybe sales people who want to learn first hand how other sales people try to sell to angry people. Bill