What is the purpose of the national Do Not Call Registry?
A)to make businesses that use telemarketing to register all the numbers that they call
B)to allow consumers to receive telemarketing calls only from marketers that they want to call them
C)to stop telemarketers from calling cell phone numbers because consumers must pay for those calls
D)to allow consumers to "opt-out" of telemarketing calls from for-profit businesses
E)to stop telemarketers from calling people at work

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The purpose of the national Do Not Call Registry is to allow consumers to "opt-out" of telemarketing calls from for-profit businesses. Once a consumer's number is on the registry, it is illegal for most telemarketers to call that number.

What Is the Purpose of the National Do Not Call