News release: “The Federal Trade Commission today issued the National Do Not Call Registry Data Book for Fiscal Year 2011. The FTC’s National Do Not Call Registry provides consumers with an easy way to stop unwanted telemarketing calls…According to the Data Book, at the end of FY 2011 (September 30, 2011), the Do Not Call Registry contained 209,722,924 actively registered phone numbers, up from 201,542,535 at the end of FY 2010. In addition, the number of consumer complaints about unwanted telemarketing calls increased from 1,633,819 at the end of FY 2010 to 2,272,662 at the end of FY 2011. In its third year of publication, the Data Book contains a wealth of information about the Registry for FY 2011, including:

• The number of active registrations and consumer complaint figures since the Registry began in 2003;
• FY 2011 complaint figures by month and complaint type;
• FY 2011 registration and complaint figures for all 50 states and the District of Columbia by population;
• The number of entities accessing the Registry by fiscal year; and
• An appendix on registration and complaint data by consumer state and area code.”