The Federal Trade Commission has shut down the national do-not-call list, while legal wrangling continues.
“We shut down everything to do with the registry already except the sign-up mechanism and we are in the process of trying to figure out how we do that,” said FTC Chairman Timothy Muris. He told reporters after testifying to a Senate committee on the list that “unless something happens differently shortly, we’ll take orderly steps to accomplish that,” news reports said.
But it may take awhile. “Because of technological issues it will probably take a few days,” an FTC spokesperson said.