Rules and Regulations Implementing the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991.

We recently revised the current Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA) rules, and adopted new rules modifying the Federal Communications Commission's (Commission's) unsolicited facsimile advertising requirements. This document establishes an effective date of January 1, 2005 for one provision of those rules. We have also modified the effective date of our determination that an established business relationship will no longer be sufficient to show that an individual or business has given express permission to receive unsolicited facsimile advertisements and the rule provision requiring that the sender of a facsimile advertisement first obtain the recipient's express permission in writing. The effective date of our amended definition of an "established business relationship" is not affected by our determination here.