The French Parliament moved on Wednesday, which was upset with measures to prevent unwanted phone calls with measures due to being implemented in more than a year.Under the law, passed in a Senate vote, it would depend on a company to prove that a person’s call on a person’s telephone was made with an person’s express consent.The only exception will be when the company is already calling to complete a contract.According to a October 2024 survey by French consumer group UFC-Qu Choisir, 97 percent of people in France have expressed burning sensation on cold calls.Often telemarketers use different phone numbers from various geographical regions, making calls about heat pumps, changing utility or cell phone providers, as a strategy to install windows, or other transactions as a strategy.The government-supported MPs decided to enact a law against cold-colors, after seeing that a French service, blowchell, was not working, to stop such spam calls.A 43 -year -old French, Lucy Cupher, said that after receiving “several calls” from unwanted telemarketers, he got rid of his landline.“But they continued on my mobile phone. Many calls in a day, it was a sheer hell,” he said.The French government was also concerned about how many calls were made to arrange for publicly funded schemes, such as training programs to make homes more energy efficient.The law “will protect more weak people, the elderly, who never feel that this harassment by telephone is only an entry point for large -scale fraud schemes”, said the minister of public accounts, Ameli de Montchelin.The law is going to be implemented in August 2026.Senator Pierre-Je Verzlan said that companies would “be a year to organize themselves” to follow the law “, but then” there would be no exception. “Spain is also looking to take action against telemarketers. Its government said last week that it wants to block calls from firms that do not use telecom operators a dedicated prefix, which recognizes them as commercial callers.
