The Federal Communications Commission has delayed implementing new restrictions on outbound fax marketing until Jan. 1, 2005. The new rules would have gone into effect next week, on Aug. 25.
Within the same ruling, the FCC also rejected a request by the American Teleservices Association (ATA) to postpone revisions to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, including the implementation of the federal do-not-call list, pending judicial review.
Under the new ruling, the requirement that a fax marketer first obtain the recipient