Under the FTC Telemarketing Sales Rule an outbound call is abandoned if a person answers and the telemarketer does not connect the call to a sales representative within two seconds of the completed greeting.

Checked 2026-09-25

Vendor
Federal Trade Commission
Product
Telemarketing Sales Rule
Subsystem
call abandonment
Deployment
any
Region
us
Release range
current as of 2026-09-25
Checked
2026-09-25

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 25). Outbound callback and dialer compliance: source note contact-center-callback-compliance-ftc-abandon-definition. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/contact-center-callback-compliance-ftc-abandon-definition

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-contact-center-callback-compliance-ftc-abandon-definition,
  title  = {Outbound callback and dialer compliance: source note contact-center-callback-compliance-ftc-abandon-definition},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/contact-center-callback-compliance-ftc-abandon-definition},
  note   = {Source note contact-center-callback-compliance-ftc-abandon-definition, checked 2026-09-25}
}

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