Consumers Take to Web for Do-Not-Call List

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NEW YORK An overwhelming majority of consumers who have signed up for the 2-month-old national do-not-call registry have done so via the Web rather than by telephone, according to the Federal Trade Commission.

Nearly 80 percent of the 48.4 million phone numbers that have been added to the registry since it opened June 27 were posted at www.donotcall.gov, according to a statement on the FTC’s Web site. The FTC, however, reported that the 6 million registrations recorded during the Labor Day weekend were more evenly divided, with about half coming through the Web site and the balance via the toll-free do-not-call registration number, (888) 383-1222.

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