There's been some notice of the pending expiration, but it's been less than prominent.

There's also been a recent increase in violations, according to my own observations, probably from "offshore" automatic dialers.

There still seems to be much confusion over the Don't Call list relative to cell phones. Some reports say that you can register a cell phone number, and that appears to be true.

There has been much blather about the pending release of a "national cell phone directory" which will instantly subject all cell phones to the same sort of trash previously experienced with land line, but this appears to be an urban myth.

It is currently, according to reasonably believable reports, a violation of US Federal regulations to "cold call" anyone who must pay for receiving the call; but there have been some (quantity unknown) violations on this. The cell phone companys have been "uncooperative" about cancelling charges when it happens, and the charges can be rather large, so it's not a trivial deal.

Some may not know that the flood of snail-mail credit card offers and mortgage re-finance deals can be largely halted (after a time) by contacting any of the major credit rating companies and filing your "non-permission" for release of your credit information. If they can't get your credit rating without your permission, they can't send you the "usual offers." I can attest that it does help, although it can take several months for the flood to decay to dribble proportions.

John