{"id":236069,"date":"2021-04-26T23:53:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T20:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/act-on-robocalls-or-else-fcc-warns-phone-companies\/"},"modified":"2021-04-26T23:53:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T20:53:39","slug":"act-on-robocalls-or-else-fcc-warns-phone-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/act-on-robocalls-or-else-fcc-warns-phone-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"#Act on robocalls \u2013 or else, FCC warns phone companies"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Act on robocalls \u2013 or else, FCC warns phone companies<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0Federal Communications Commission\u00a0will require phone companies to act aggressively against\u00a0robocalls\u00a0\u2013 or else.<\/p>\n

By Sept. 28, phone companies must refuse to accept traffic that is not listed in the\u00a0Robocall Mitigation Database<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 which verifies the call is coming from the caller\u2019s actual phone number.<\/p>\n

\u201cProtecting consumers from scammers that use robocall and spoofing tools is a top priority,\u201d FCC Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur message to providers is clear: certify under penalty of perjury the steps you are taking to stop illegal robocalls, or we will block your calls,\u201d Rosenworcel said.<\/p>\n

This action by the FCC is happ<\/a>ening as robocallers get active again after a lull during the pandemic.\u00a0Robocalls spiked in February, hitting over 4.6 billion nationwide, a 15.1% increase over January, and continued to climb in March, according to YouMail\u2019s\u00a0Robocall Index.<\/a><\/p>\n

Robocalls are on pace to reach\u00a051 billion in 2021,<\/a>\u00a0up significantly from 2020, according to YouMail.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Robocall Mitigation Database represents one more tool in the FCC toolbelt to help combat robocalls,\u201d Bill Versen, president of communications market at\u00a0Transaction Network Services<\/a>\u00a0(TNS), told Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile consumers may not see an immedia<\/a>te impact on the September 28\u00a0date the FCC has set for carriers to block incoming traffic from providers not listed in the Database, it will give the agency greater insight into efforts by carriers to prevent illegal traffic from originating on their networks,\u201d Versen said.<\/p>\n

Versen added that TNS has already seen an increase in cease-and-desist letters to carriers that are responsible for illegal traffic thanks to the efforts of the Industry Traceback Group, which helps voice service providers trace and identify the source of illegal robocalls.<\/p>\n

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FCC Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel made the warning amid a rise in robocalls.<\/figcaption>
Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A special focus of the FCC announcement is that certain companies, which were granted an extension to implement a so-called\u00a0STIR\/SHAKEN protocol,<\/a>\u00a0must now file detailed reports on their progress toward implementing anti-robocall technology<\/a>, the FCC said.<\/p>\n

The STIR\/SHAKEN protocol\u00a0(STIR stands for Secure Telephone Identity Revisited and SHAKEN for Signature-based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs) is aimed at tracking calls\u00a0travel<\/a>ing through interconnected phone networks. The\u00a0caller ID is \u201csigned\u201d as legitimate by originating carriers and validated by other carriers before reaching consumers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSTIR\/SHAKEN digitally validates the handoff of phone calls passing through the complex web of networks, allowing the phone company of the consumer receiving the call to verify that a call is in fact from the number displayed on Caller ID,\u201d according to the FTC.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Act on robocalls \u2013 or else, FCC warns phone companies” The\u00a0Federal Communications Commission\u00a0will require phone companies to act aggressively against\u00a0robocalls\u00a0\u2013 or else. By Sept. 28, phone companies must refuse to accept traffic that is not listed in the\u00a0Robocall Mitigation Database\u00a0\u2013 which verifies the call is coming from the caller\u2019s actual phone number. \u201cProtecting consumers from…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/robocalls-phone-companies-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[103458,75942,98296],"class_list":["post-236069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-4-26-21","tag-fcc","tag-robocalls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}