Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 39, September 26, 2024
(a)
(1) On or before September 1, 2001,
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company shall coordinate an industrywide forum of
all interested local exchange carriers and telecommunications carriers to
collectively develop a method or methods for annually notifying residential
subscribers of the information specified in K.S.A. 50-675a(a), and amendments
thereto.
(2) The forum shall,
within two weeks after its conclusion, submit a report to the commission for
approval as to the form and content of the method or methods developed to
ensure compliance with K.S.A. 50-675a, and amendments thereto.
(b) In addition to the information
required to be provided in paragraph (a)(1) above, the following information,
to be provided to the forum by the Direct Marketing Association, shall also be
provided to all residential subscribers by all local exchange carriers and
telecommunications carriers using the method or methods developed:
(1) The procedure for registering with the
Direct Marketing Association's telephone preference service;
(2) the frequency with which the Direct
Marketing Association's database is updated;
(3) the types of calls residential
subscribers should still expect to receive;
(4) the procedure for registration renewal if
residential subscribers move or receive a new telephone number;
(5) the duration of the residential
subscriber's registration period; and
(6) the procedure for registration renewal.
(c) Any of the
following means may be used in attempting to inform telephone solicitors in
Kansas of the criteria for membership in the Direct Marketing Association, the
charges for members and nonmembers to access the Direct Marketing Association's
database, and options for accessing Kansas-specific portions of the Direct
Marketing Association's database:
(1)
Beginning September 1, 2001, annual publication in the Kansas register by the
commission of the criteria for telephone solicitors to become members of the
Direct Marketing Association;
(2)
inclusion by the commission of relevant information on its internet web site;
(3) inclusion of relevant
information in a newsletter mailing by the Direct Marketing Association; or
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(4) inclusion of relevant information by
publishers of telephone directories in the consumer information pages in local
telephone directories.
