"Twenty phone companies may soon have all their voice calls blocked by US carriers," reports Ars Technica, "because they didn't submit real plans for preventing robocalls on their networks."… Read More
In context: It's been a few years since the FCC began requiring telecom providers to implement the STIR/SHAKEN robocall mitigation framework. Most major carriers have either fully or partial… Read More
Office of Management and Budget request for revision of a currently approved collection on OMB Number 3060-1285. This request falls under the agency FCC Read More
Telecoms slow to adopt anti-robocall measures could soon face stiff punishment in the US. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) now plans to remove seven voice service providers from i… Read More
Telecoms slow to adopt anti-robocall measures could soon face stiff punishment in the US. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) now plans to remove seven voice service providers from i… Read More
Apple and Google’s domination across the mobile internet is under scrutiny again. Earlier this year, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it was consulting on a possib… Read More
Google’s big Pixel hardware event kicks off Thursday October 6th, and we’ll finally get to hear all the details of the Pixel 7 series and that long-teased (and leaked) Pixel Watc… Read More
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The Federal Communications Commission is threatening to block calls from voice service providers that have yet to take meaningful action against illegal ro… Read More
Last year, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made putting a Stop to Robocallers, Spoofers, and Scammers a Top priority. Now, the FCC is enacting even Stricter Rules. The FCC V… Read More
In March 2020 the FCC approved the requirement for phone call carriers to implement the STIR/SHAKEN technology in order to stop robocalls.
The Caller ID framework includes a verification fro… Read More
The FCC is set to introduce a new database that all voice providers must use so that the agency can track their efforts to prevent robocalls. From September 28th of 2021, phone companies mus… Read More
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Federal Communications Commission hopes to reduce the number of illegal robocalls from overseas with an expansion of rules that req… Read More
All three major US carriers have met the deadline to implement the FCC's new anti-spoofing protocol designed to protect users from scam caller impersonation. Both Verizon and T-Mobile announ… Read More