Permission-based calling is the best way to go, but it's also the riskiest. About 25 percent of cell phone owners who live in densely populated areas change their number each year. It’s much more prevalent than you might think.
A quarter of collector complaints received by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are “no debt owed,” and it’s believed most of those are calls to the wrong party. Courts have indicated you, the calling party, are responsible for verifying that you are calling the person you intend to call. The problem is, for cell phones anyway, that information is largely unavailable.
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler reiterates this in his May 27'th, 2015 blog, "We also close the 'reassigned number' loophole, making clear that consumers who inherit a phone number will not be subject to a barrage of unwanted robocalls OK'd by the previous owner of the number."
And the older your data - the more likely you are to call the wrong person.
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