New fax rules.Last summer, President Bush signed a law limiting the distribution of "junk faxes Transmitting faxes to unsolicited recipients. U.S. federal law 47USC227 prohibits broadcasting junk faxes, allowing recipients to sue the sender in Small Claims Court for $500 per copy. See spam. ." Now, with the Aug. 1 deadline approaching, federal regulators have spelled Out its enforcement. Among the new rules from the Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission (FCC), independent executive agency of the U.S. government established in 1934 to regulate interstate and foreign communications in the public interest. : senders of fax advertisements must include a notice on the fax allowing recipients to contact the sender and have their name removed from the sender's mass-fax list. Upon receipt of such an opt-out To cancel some situation or condition. See opt-in. request, the sender has 30 days to remove the person or entity from their list. The law signed last summer exempts faxes sent to someone who has an "established business relationship" with the sender. Under the FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. rules, there must be some sort of contractual arrangement made at least every 90 days in order to meet this criterion. This interpretation has upset small business, which backed an earlier proposal that required renewing contractual arrangements after 18 months. The complaint is new FCC rule will place additional burdens on small business owners to send out contractual notices to their customers every 90 days. For the FCC report on the "junk fax Junk faxes are a form of telemarketing where unsolicited advertisements are sent via fax transmission. Junk faxes are the faxed equivalent of spam or junk mail. Proponents of this advertising medium often use the terms broadcast fax or fax advertising " rules, log onto http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-06-42A1.pdf. |
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