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Comcast was accused by the Federal Trade Commission of violating the Do Not Call legislation. In a settlement, the company ended up paying the government agency $900,000.

Comcast was not charged with contacting numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry, but the commission said it “found its entity-specific Do Not Call violations serious and pervasive enough to warrant a complaint,” the commission said.

In a statement, Comcast said it “fully supports all Do-Not-Call regulations and we are committed to preventing unwanted telemarketing calls. The FTC found our compliance with the national Registry to be 99.85 percent and chose not to pursue any claim against Comcast in that area. This settlement is limited to alleged calls made to persons identified on our internal do-not-call list, where our compliance percentage was at 99.74 percent. Both compliance percentages are greater than those reported by the FTC to Congress last year as evidencing ‘highly effective’ performance. Since the period under review, we have further strengthened our policies and procedures to prevent unwanted telemarketing calls.”

At least Comcast is paying up and is recognizing the fact that it was doing something wrong. I fully support the do not call list, but think it should be more strictly enforced. Perhaps with Comcast coming up with almost a million dollar fine, there will be even less telemarketers, but probably not.

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