The FCC Aims To Stem Robocalls But ATT, Verizon, & T-Mobile Say Wait
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...