Today, and they are at t, bandwidth, centurylink, charter, frontier,onsolidated, cellular,mobile, u. S. Verizon, and windstream. Today we are announcing major bipartisan publicprivate effort to stop robocalls. Myst, i want to introduce colleague and fellow cochair of this initiative, New Hampshire attorney general gordon macdonald. Thank you, general stein, and thank you for your leadership on this issue. The essence of our role as attorneys general is to protect the public. No single issue comes close to generating the volume of consumer complaints as robocalls. For virtually all of us, the spam calls are a ubiquitous and regular annoyance. But robocalls are also a very effective device for illegal conduct conducted by financial particularlyprey on the vulnerable, putting at risk their savings, their identity, their security. The memorandum of understanding we are announcing today will significantly enhance our efforts as attorneys generals to. Rotect the public we serve it is a very
Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla Morgan Brennan has the morning off. What a morning it is too beginning with major tech earnings four big one, twitter, amazon, alphabet and intel and intels ceo bob swan will sit down with us as we look at potential datacenter recovery, pcs and unbelievable characterization of what china was like last quarter. Yeah, surprising mix, the pull in from people freaked out about tariffs actually had some benefit, sounds like, for the pc business, of course, there were some problems there as well but interesting stock action this morning. Intel actually a bit in the red this morning it had been up as much as 4 , i believe, at the open and near there. Up kit a bit afterhours and amd higher than intel which is an interesting dynamic that ill want to dig into but, you know, beyond just intel, you have lots of different earnings story, people surprised. Google, alphabet had been in the doghouse compared to peers and a lot of people got surprised by the
Get started with our next panel. My name is Christopher Shipley executive director for encompass thank you all for sticking around. And gives me great pleasure to introduce our next one seeing is how for encompass i do all of our inhouse robo call and robo texting work. But i am thrilled thank you. Thank you. [applause] thank you i do want to think back for poll attachments in half an hour but it gives me great to introduce tamara fin moderating our panel today and thank each and every of our gue bill hunt and john from tns and Michael Pryor council to the Communication Alliance looking forward to todays panel and i wish you all the very best. Thanks. Thank you chris and thank you bill john and michael for join knows what robo calls and robo texts are of course nobody wants to be called from the irs scam but you do want your calls and your Doctors Office or from your schools it is very important those calls get through and they dont get labeled as spam so industry and the fcc working t
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6 every month americans receive 1. 5 billion to 3 billion scam calls and illegal tell ell marketing calls. This is an issue that im confident everyone in the room has dealt with. And those of you who have phones on, im sure you will receive robo calls and texts during this hearing and i wouldnt be surprised if we didnt. They interrupt sleep if you dont put your phone in sleep mode or telling them off. And time with friends and family and even during hearings. If they do, hold your phone up and share with the rest of america what is happening while in this room. They have eroded trust in our Communications Networks. Many have become subject to those fibbing attacks which are causing the American People billions of dollars. And is traced. Goes back to 2019. These protect americans from predatory and unsole is ted robocalls. And as they were implemented, the number of unsole is ted has decreased. Do not call complaints has reduced as well. Not entirely but by some numbers and the federal