Telecom Digest 40th Birthday
August 21, 2021
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The Telecom Digest for Sat, 21 Aug 2021
Volume 40 : Issue 233 : "text" format

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Ninth Circuit Holds TCPA Prohibits Pre-Recorded Recruiting Calls To Cell Phones Without Prior Express Consent
Re: PIN Code to Reach
Re: PIN Code to Reach
The Telecom Digest is Forty Years Old!

Message-ID: <20210819232928.40BD37FF@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 23:29:28 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Ninth Circuit Holds TCPA Prohibits Pre-Recorded Recruiting Calls To Cell Phones Without Prior Express Consent by Rod M. Fliegel (San Francisco) , William Simmons (Philadelphia), Zoe Argento (Denver), Julie Stockton (San Francisco) and Garrick Y. Chan (San Francisco) Staffing companies and employers using all tools at their disposal to recruit workers may face increased risk following the Ninth Circuit's recent opinion in Loyhayem v. Fraser Financial. In Loyhayem, the court found that calling potential workers' cell phones with pre-recorded voice messages could violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), unless the workers had previously consented to the calls. In light of Loyhayem, "cold-calling" prospects using this method may subject companies to class actions carrying risk of substantial statutory damages. https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/advertising-marketing-branding/1102038/ninth-circuit-holds-tcpa-prohibits-pre-recorded-recruiting-calls-to-cell-phones-without-prior-express-consent?email_access=on
Message-ID: <20210820174458.GA5628@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 17:44:58 +0000 From: Bill Horne <malQassRimiMlation@gmail.com> Subject: Re: PIN Code to Reach On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 10:05:33AM -0400, David wrote: > True. But GV can ring up to 6 numbers simultaneously plus VOIP apps. Sorry, I didn't write very clearly. The point I was trying to make is that Google Voice can't stop robocalls which are randomly dialed: it only works to screen calls made to numbers that Sleezeoids have purchased from database vendors. Bill -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)
Message-ID: <de29a37e-44fb-01c1-2cbb-f4e77056ab99@panix.com> Date: 20 Aug 2021 10:05:33 -0400 From: "David" <wb8foz@panix.com> Subject: Re: PIN Code to Reach > ***** Moderator's Note ***** > > I have a friend who uses Google Voice to screen his calls: whenever I > call him, GV asks me to state my name and then promises to try and > find him. I don't know what's involved or what it costs. It's free, as is all GV domestic use. You get prompted if you are not in his Contacts list. If you are, he gets a robovoice with your name. > I assume that if I knew his actual cell phone number, I could bypass > Google Voice, but it's better than nothing. True. But GV can ring up to 6 numbers simultaneously plus VOIP apps. Also note Callcentric offers Telemarketer Block. The caller gets prompted to "Dial 'n' to connect" when n is a random 0-9; 99.999% of the telesleeze do not. Again, a phonebook entry bypasses it. Users seem to love it.
Message-ID: <20210821035405.GA8160@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 04:20:21 +0000 From: Bill Horne <malQassimRilatMion@gmail.com> Subject: The Telecom Digest is Forty Years Old! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TELECOM DIGEST! This publication was founded on August 21, 1981, and that makes it forty years old today. I'm sending this out after Midnight, so that it will appear in reader's inboxes, on Usenet, and in the "Digest" version of the Telecom Digest all on the same date, no matter how our publication gets to you. As a technician at New England Telephone & Telegraph Co., I helped to install the first "High Speed" ananlog lines between the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at M.I.T., and Bolt Beranek and Newman, the first Internet Service PRovider. I feel I'm entitled to say that I was "Present at the Creation" of the Internet as we came to know it, and I worked in Panel, #1 Crossbar, #5 Crossbar, and ESS offices, along with "T" carrier equipments from the "D1" to the "D4" banks, and on L5 Carrier, Microwave, IMTS Mobile, and Ship-To-Shore radio systems: I welcome comments and remembrances from others who worked on the earlier software, hardware, and protocols which made today's telephone and Internet networks possible. On this special day, let's hear from all the old hands about the Digest's past, what you think the future holds, and thoughts about how we'll get there. I look forward to the years to come. I've been the Moderator here since 2007, and with any luck, I'll make it to the Digest's 50th. Bill -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) "I've been aware of the time going by they say in the end it's the wink of an eye" (Jackson Browne, "The Pretender")

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