Billions of Robocalls
Consumers get billions of robocalls and many if not most of them come from overseas locations including India and the Philippines.
On September 28, the FCC seeks to implement foreign provider regulation that would block most of these incoming calls.
Under the proposal, foreign carriers have to be approved by the FCC and those spamming calls would be blocked.
Rule Challenge
“We strongly support the direction the FCC is going to address the foreign robocall problem, to police the edge of the U.S. telephone network,” Verizon associate general counsel Christopher Oatway said in an interview. “We would like to pause the process, reexamine what needs to be done and continue to work on ways to create effective barriers to these incessant calls.”
By Ryan Tracy WASHINGTON The nation s largest wireless carriers are lobbying to delay a new regulation on robocalls aimed at overseas scammers who make them, citing concerns that the rule could end up blocking legitimate calls. The Federal Communications Commission rule, set to take effect Sept. 28, would require foreign-based phone companies to step up efforts to fight illegal robocalls or risk being blocked from sending calls to the U.S. Many of the billions of robocalls annoying Americans emanate from India, the Philippines and other countries. FCC officials say the regulation, known as the foreign provider prohibition, would allow them to better trace the sources of illegal calls and block companies that carry them.
SIP Forum Names Chris Drake of iconectiv and Christopher Oatway of Verizon as New Members of Board of Directors, and Announces Re-Election of Other Members
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Industry luminaries to continue the SIP Forum’s history of thought leadership and technical expertise surrounding the evolution of STIR/SHAKEN and other IP communications technologies and services
Together, Drake, Oatway, Dolly, Linse, Wendt and Whitten, along with other members of the Board of Directors, will leverage their years of experience and expertise to champion new IP communications applications and technologies such as STIR/SHAKEN to advance IP communications capabilities. NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. (PRWEB)