Industry News: Fax Regulations Put on Hold

New fax regulations will not take effect this January, thanks to a six-month extension approved by FCC commissioners that pushes back the effective date to July 1, 2005.

The regulations are part of the FCC's anti-telemarketing campaign and would force home builders and other companies to obtain signed, written consent forms from each of their customers prior to transmitting any faxes. The six-month delay will hopefully give Congress time to pass pending legislation to allow firms that have an "established business relationship" to transmit unsolicited commercial faxes to their customers and would give recipients the ability to opt-out of future unsolicited faxes.

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