Predictive dialing refers to a system capable of placing calls that are likely to be answered by the called party at a time when the calling party is available.

Predictive dialing refers to a system capable of placing calls that are likely to be answered by the called party at a time when the calling party is available. Under this ruling, such a system may or may not be an ATDS; the predictive capability is irrelevant. The key distinction is not whether the system can dial numbers from a list randomly or sequentially, but whether it can generate numbers randomly or sequentially (as opposed to being provided by another party).