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Well, let's say you're a client of a brokerage firm. How am I supposed to stay in touch with you? Wouldn't it even be illegal for me to call and ask you? If you do business with phone company x, shouldn't they be able to call you and offer you new services, or discounts on calling plans that they know you'd benefit from? I had my phone company call me and inform me about a plan that fit my needs, I saved money and was happy to hear from them. As I said before, you have the ability to curtail these calls by just using some common sense. Involving the govt into this was a ploy to gain far reaching power that would have dramatically effected American business.

If I am doing business with a company they can send me the wonderful offer WITH THEIR BILL and include a phone number if I want to discuss it further. What a lame excuse... by the way what is your phone number? Don't worry about the jobs in India and Pakistan...

My point, and I'm not surprised folks disagree, is that govt had NO right to become the arbitrator of this.

The financial consequences of this thing actually having gone through would have been truly massive.

If you don't want to be called, just do some fairly simple things and problem will be solved.

I'll tell you one consequence for SURE. If this had gone through, your mailbox would have needed SUPER sizing!