Oklahoma Telephone Solicitation Act: hours, 3 calls, and caller ID

The Oklahoma Telephone Solicitation Act limits sales calls to 8 AM to 8 PM in the called person’s time zone and to 3 calls a person in 24 hours on the same subject. It requires accurate caller ID and written consent for autodialed or recorded sales calls. Each violation can cost US$500, or up to 3 times that if willful.

The act came from House Bill 3168 and took effect on 1 Nov 2022. It sits in Title 15 of the Oklahoma Statutes, sections 775C.1 to 775C.6. Everything below is from the enrolled bill text, as of November 2026. We found no later amendment, but confirm the current text before you rely on it.

If the rules look familiar, they should. The hours, the 3-call limit, and the US$500 damages match Florida’s, covered in our Florida telemarketing law guide.

The rules at a glance

Rule	What the text says	Section
Calling hours	No commercial telephone solicitation call before 8 AM or after 8 PM, local time in the called person’s time zone	775C.4(A)(1)
Call frequency	No more than 3 calls to a person in 24 hours on the same subject matter or issue, regardless of the number used	775C.4(A)(2)
Autodialer consent	No sales call using an automated system for the selection or dialing of numbers, or a recorded message, without prior express written consent	775C.3(A)
Caller ID	Transmit the originating number and, when your carrier makes it available, the caller’s name	775C.3(B), 775C.4(B)
Spoofing	No technology that deliberately displays a different number to conceal who is calling	775C.4(B)(2)
Location	A call to any Oklahoma area code is presumed to reach an Oklahoma resident or a person in the state (rebuttable)	775C.3(D)
Damages	Actual damages or US$500, whichever is greater; up to 3 times for willful or knowing violations	775C.6

The hours and the 3-call limit apply to “calls made through automated dialing or recorded messages” too. Manual calls are covered either way.

Calling hours: 8 PM, not 9 PM

The federal rule for telephone solicitations to residential subscribers runs from 8 AM to 9 PM at the called party’s location (47 CFR 64.1200(c)(1)). Oklahoma ends an hour earlier, and its text does not limit the window to residential lines.

Oklahoma is on Central time. A worked example for a team calling from Bengaluru (IST, UTC+5:30), after US daylight saving time ended on 1 Nov 2026:

Oklahoma local time (CST, UTC−6)	UTC	Bengaluru (IST)
8:00 AM, window opens	14:00	7:30 PM
12:00 PM	18:00	11:30 PM
8:00 PM, window closes	02:00 next day	7:30 AM next day

The whole legal window falls in the Bengaluru evening and night. A rep who works through to the IST morning has run out of Oklahoma time by 7:30 AM. Our guide to state telemarketing calling hours lists the other states with their own windows.

The 3-call limit, counted the way the text reads

The limit is 3 calls “from any number to a person over a twenty-four-hour period on the same subject matter or issue, regardless of the phone number used to make the call.” Three details matter:

1. It counts calls, not conversations. A no-answer, a voicemail and a hang-up each count.
2. Switching numbers does not reset it. Local presence or a second caller ID still counts against the same person.
3. It is a rolling 24 hours. Calls at 9:10 AM, 1:40 PM and 4:55 PM use up the limit until 9:10 AM the next day, not until midnight.

The safe build is a per-contact counter that looks back 24 hours across every number and every rep on the account. A double dial, two calls back to back, uses 2 of the 3.

Autodialers and written consent

Section 775C.3(A) bars a sales call that “involves an automated system for the selection or dialing of telephone numbers or the playing of a recorded message” without the called party’s prior express written consent. Note the word “or” in the text. Whether a given dialer counts as such a system is a legal question for your counsel.

The act’s definition of prior express written consent has four parts. The agreement must:

• bear the called party’s signature (electronic signatures count where federal or state law recognizes them);
• clearly authorize sales calls to them using an automated system or a recorded message;
• include the phone number the consent covers;
• disclose clearly that signing authorizes those calls and is not a condition of buying anything.

Recorded voicemail drops fall under the same rule: the definition names “the transmission of a prerecorded voicemail.”

Caller ID: the number must call back

Oklahoma’s caller ID rule goes further than “don’t block your number.” You must transmit the originating number and, when the carrier makes it available, the caller’s name. You may show the seller’s name and customer service number instead, if that number is answered during regular business hours.

Any number you display must be able to receive calls. A person who calls it back must reach the caller or the seller the call was made for. A local presence number that rings out or plays “not in service” fails that test.

Myth: “B2B calls are exempt”

They mostly are not. The act protects the “called party,” defined as the regular user of the number that receives the call. Nothing in the text limits that to consumers.

Section 775C.5 lists 26 exemptions. The B2B one is narrow. It covers a business-to-business sale where one of these is true:

• the seller has operated for at least 3 years under the same name, with at least 50% of its dollar volume from repeat sales to existing businesses;
• the buyer intends to resell the goods, or use them for advertising or as promotional items;
• the buyer will use the goods in recycling, reuse, remanufacturing or manufacturing.

A software or services company calling new prospects usually fits none of these. Another exemption covers prospects with an existing business relationship, or who have bought from you before. Several other items in the list are broadly worded. Read the list with your counsel, and see TCPA rules for B2B cold calling for the federal side.

A checklist for calling Oklahoma numbers

1. Set the calling window to 8 AM to 8 PM in the contact’s time zone, not your rep’s.
2. Count every attempt per contact over a rolling 24 hours, across all numbers and reps, and stop at 3.
3. Confirm with counsel whether your dialing mode needs written consent, and keep the signed records.
4. Show a number that answers or routes back to you, and never mask the caller.
5. Treat any Oklahoma area code as an Oklahoma resident unless you know otherwise.
6. Log calls and outcomes, so you can show what happened if a claim comes in.

How DialSavvy handles this

DialSavvy checks every call before it rings: calling hours in the contact’s time zone and your do-not-call list. Each local number makes up to 50 calls a day. Per-state US rules, such as Oklahoma’s 8 PM cutoff and 3-call limit, are coming. Until then, set your workspace calling window to the stricter hours for state lists.

Calling Oklahoma, Florida or Texas this quarter? Book a demo and we’ll walk through the checks against your state list.