"An abandonded call is a telemarketing call that is not connected to a live representative within 2 seconds after being answered by a live person. If you receive an abandoned call you may hear dead air or clicking sounds sometimes followed by a prerecorded message or a hang up."
Of course, the key word here is "telemarketing". If they don't try to sell you something (or get you to call back and sell you something) then this entire paragraph is completely irrelevant, as is any other quote from the TCPA. Political calls, surveys, collections are all completely exempt from the FCC/FTC's *telemarketing* rules. So you can dig up all the stuff you want from the FCC's telemarketing rules but it won't apply and you are wasting people's time with pointing them at this or the national do-not-call registry.
If the calls are excessive (and they ignore your requests to not be called), you may be able to file a harassment complaint, but that's a different type of issue and is covered by a different area of the law.
This # started calling our house phone 06/25, followed by about 20 min. to all our cell phones on our Verizon plan the same day that I did an upgrade with Verizon. The fact that all our cell phones ring at the exact same time leads me to believe there has to be a connection to verizon giving it out. We are also on a "No Call" list and the only calls that have ever come through before-in the past-to our cell phones were connected to verizon sales calls!
this caller has called me 3 times in the past 2 days i did not pick up nd they did not leave a message.. i did look up the 208 area code nd found out the caller is from Idaho