Industry groups questioned the authority of states to regulate telemarketing beyond their borders. They continued to call for a single national regulatory standard in the wake of the Utah Supreme Court’s ruling this week that state telemarketing laws can go farther than federal laws.
“We have a petition before the Federal Communications Commission we filed a few months ago that we hope will resolve who has final regulatory authority over telemarketing-the Commission or the states,” said Tim Searcy, CEO of the American Teleservices Association.
He said he hoped the FCC would rule on this by the end of this year but was not hopeful about it, especially as several commissioners
