FCC to propose rules allowing automatic robocall blocking

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The plan, if approved, could go into effect later this year and allow carriers to apply robocall-blocking technologies to customer accounts automatically.

Americans received more than 26 billion robocalls last year — a 46% increase over the year before, according to a study by the Seattle-based spam monitoring service Hiya. Companies have been working on a variety of techniques to thwart spam callers, but many have been reluctant to release them widely over fears that the technology could be considered illegal by regulators, said FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who added his proposal aims to put those fears to rest.

"Read MoreCarriers have also been developing standards aimed at verifying the owner of a particular phone number, in order to cut down on robocalls in which scammers hide behind legitimate phone numbers. The FCC proposal would ask for public input on how those standards should work.Last month, T-Mobile and Comcast's Xfinity said they would start verifying calls between their networks, using a tool that will alert customers if an incoming call wasn't placed by an actual human.

 

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Thank goodness. This is getting out of control as of late.

Now this. This is actual news and good news at that. -M

Yes please.

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“allow carriers”. Translation: There will be a fee to block robocalls.

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The FCC has the ability to stop to robocalls completely, but instead they want you to pay your carrier to block them for you.

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They will end up blocking legitimate calls and charging the vendor ( services you subscribe to) to get unblocked which will be hpassed on to the customer. They are already doing this with text.

That would be great

Finally. I hate those parasites.

Will there be a charge? it should be free.

I'd rather have robocalls than have carriers block calls for me.

you will have to pay. through the nose. for what should be a standard feature. Typically, CorpoNewsNetwork omits that part from the clickbait

Pleasssssseeee sweet Jesus!!!!

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