Legislation For Protection Of Telephone Services Users From Abuses With Respect To Contacting, Publicity, Sales & Offer Of Unsolicited Goods & Services

On June 30th, 2017, the Executive Power in Paraguay passed on Law No. 5830, which protects phone services users from unwanted or unsolicited publicity, contact and offer of goods and services, a modality which has become very frequent in Paraguay. In effect, currently, many individuals and corporations, including big pharmacy chains, perfumeries, banks, mobile phone companies and financial institutions, send text messages to mobile phone owners massively, offering their goods and services, which is not only annoying to consumers, but which also demonstrates that our data is exposed and available to the public.

The objective of Law No. 5830 is the protection of owners and authorized users of telephone services from the abuses with respect to the...