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Dialing Services Cited for Robocalls
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DA 13-265
File No.: EB-TCD-12-00001812
Dialing Services, LLC ))
PRERECORDED MESSAGE VIOLATIONS
Adopted: March 15, 2013
This is an official CITATION AND ORDER (Citation), issued by the Federal Communications Commission (Commission or FCC) pursuant to Section 503(b)(5) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (Communications Act or Act), 47 U.S.C. § 503(b)(5), for violations of the Act and the Commission’s rules that govern telephone solicitations, prerecorded, and autodialed telephone calls.1 Specifically, Dialing Services, LLC (“Dialing Services” or “Company”) is being cited for violations of the provisions of the Act and Commission’s rules that (1) prohibit making any calls to cell phones using autodialers or artificial or prerecorded messages absent an emergency purpose or prior express consent2 and (2) for calls that are otherwise permissible, require certain identification information to be present in prerecorded messages.3
Notice of Duty to Comply With Law: Dialing Services is hereby on notice that if it subsequently engages in any conduct of the type described in this Citation, including any violation of Section 227 of the Act or Sections 64.1200 or 64.1601(e) of the Commission’s rules, it may be subject to further legal action, including monetary fines (forfeitures).4 Such forfeitures may be based on both the conduct that led to this Citation and the conduct following it.5
1See 47 U.S.C. § 227; 47 C.F.R. §§ 64.1200, 64.1601(e). Section 227 was added to the Communications Act by the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, Pub. L. No. 102-243, 105 Stat. 2394 (codified at 47 U.S.C. § 227), and is most commonly known as the TCPA. The TCPA and the Commission’s rules restrict a variety of practices that are associated with telephone solicitation and the use of the telephone network to deliver unsolicited advertisements or prerecorded and autodialed telephone calls.
2 See 47 U.S.C. § 227(b)(1)(A)(iii); 47 C.F.R. § 64.1200(a)(1)(iii). 3 See 47 U.S.C. § 227(d)(3)(A); 47 C.F.R. § 64.1200(b).
4 This Citation is being issued to the company named above and includes all other entity names through which it does business, as well as its owners, principals, and officers. Accordingly, all references in this Citation to Dialing Services, REDACTED
Response Required: Pursuant to Sections 4(i), (j), and 403 of the Communications Act,6 we also direct the Company to confirm within fifteen (15) calendar days after the release date of this Citation that it has (1) ceased making calls to cell phones using autodialers or artificial or prerecorded messages and (2) ceased making any prerecorded message calls (to cell phones or otherwise) without the iden