Cell Phone Owners Beware -- Congress May Permit Robot Calls to Cell Phones

What do Lee Terry (R-NE) and Edolphus Towns (D-NY) have in common?  They are the sponsors of HR 3035 which would open up cell phones to telemarketers and Robo Calls.  Why?  If someone makes a mistake and answers their cell phone without looking, they will be paying for the minutes used and these two think that is okay.

More intrusion into our every day lives is all I can see.  There are so many marketing calls already to my phone that I have to wonder what it would be like if the "Do Not Call" actually worked.  When they left out asking for contributions as a do not call, it left a whole segment ready to make calls.  Between calls for political donations to my landline and snail mail filling up my mailbox, I cannot fathom what my cell phone would be like if this bill goes through. 

Congress May Permit Robot Calls To Cell Phones
Posted by timothy on Thursday September 29, @12:21PM from the your-time-is-very-important-to-us-please-hold dept.

TCPALaw writes 

"While many hoaxes have circulated in the past about cell phone numbers being opened up to telemarketers, it now may actually happen. A bill, HR 3035 (PDF), has been introduced in Congress, that would create numerous exceptions to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which banned autodialed and prerecorded robot calls to cell phone numbers. If passed, HR 3035 would permit a wide range of autodialed and prerecorded calls to cell phones that are currently prohibited, and would preempt practically all state laws providing similar protections. This is being applauded by debt collectors and banks (PDF) ... as if the bailouts weren't enough, now they get to make you pay for their calls to you."