Telemarketers are required to pay an annual subscription fee to access the FTC list so those numbers can be blocked from their dial-out programs. The companies also must update their own calling lists ...

To many consumers, calls from telemarketers are unwanted intrusions. But for the industry, those calls are their lifeblood _ and many of them were predicting that a new national do-not-call list would ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The cherished dinner hour void of telemarketers could vanish next year for millions of people when phone numbers begin dropping off the national Do Not Call list. The Federal Trade ...