WHAT
Managed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Do Not Call Registry gives consumers a choice about whether to receive telemarketing calls at home. 
 
KEY POINTS

• Telemarketers are prohibited from calling consumers who have put their phone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry
• Caller ID information must be transmitted
•  There is an "established business relationship" exception to the National Do Not Call provisions. A company may call a consumer with whom it has such a relationship, even if the consumer's number is on the Registry.
• The National Do Not Call Registry provisions do not apply to for-profit telefunders; rather, for-profit telefunders must keep their own Do Not Call lists, and honor donors' requests not to be called.