Spectrum Makes Cold Calls With ‘No Regard’ for DNC Registry Compliance: Class Action
Spectrum is “engaged in a scheme” to sell cable and internet services via prerecorded and live cold calls to residential phone numbers on the protected federal do not call registry, alleged plaintiff Trane Charman’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action…
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Wednesday (docket 3:23-cv-02184) in U.S. District Court for Southern California in San Diego. The TCPA gives “victims of junk calls a private right of action to sue for the intrusion on their privacy,” it said. Spectrum and its agents don’t check the DNC registry before making their illegal calls, nor do they engage in any DNC registry compliance, it said. Spectrum and its agents also make prerecorded telemarketing calls without prior express written consent, it said. These cold calls are made to “massive lists” of phone numbers in the U.S. with “no regard” for whether these numbers are listed on the national DNC registry or not, it said. Spectrum “has intentionally violated the TCPA in a so-far successful attempt” to sell its services for years, it said.