Posted on 05/15/2019 8:14:57 AM PDT by Innovative
The ruling could give carriers legal protections in blocking spam calls.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been fighting robocalls for years, but as anyone with a cell phone can tell you, they're still getting through. Now, the Commission wants to make it legal for phone companies to block unwanted robocalls by default. Chairman Anji Pai has circulated a declaratory ruling that, if adopted, would give carriers permission to develop new call blocking tools. The ruling could also allow consumers to prohibit calls from numbers that aren't on their contact lists.
The proposed change targets spam robocalls that hijack legitimate, in-service numbers. Carriers like Comcast, T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon are working to deploy STIR/SHAKEN technology that labels calls from authentic numbers. But the FCC says many voice providers have held off on developing call blocking tools because it was unclear whether those tools were legal under FCC rules.
"By making it clear that such call blocking is allowed, the FCC will give voice service providers the legal certainty they need to block unwanted calls from the outset so that consumers never have to get them," Pai said. If adopted, this ruling could lead to new call blocking tools, like those used by third-party apps. The systems would include protections against blocking emergency calls, and consumers would be able to opt-out of call blocking if they wish.
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I am of the opinion that no call should be completed if the advertised number (what you see on the caller ID) does not match the number of origin (actual number). In other words, prevent call spoofing.
I started getting spoofed calls from my own phone number. I recorded a new voicemail greeting that started with the SIT code for disconnected number. I let all calls I don’t recognize go to voicemail. Within a week, I stopped getting robocalls. https://www.thisisarecording.com/signaling.html
This will just be a service you pay for, basically a racket.
Sorta like they would charge for caller ID and also charge the calling party to hide their number.
Exactly. I don't want my "provider" blocking any calls.
Do the STIR/SHAKEN calls have to be BONDed?
Can anyone offer advice on how best to thwart/cost/punish these a$$h01es?
Is it: a. Ignore
b. Answer and immediately hang up
c. Answer and leave phonecall open
Which will do the most to cost/punish them? I REALLY want to punish them.
It should be pretty straight forward to (the system is computerized after all) identify the robo-callers by their usage pattern profiles (ex- calling LOTS of different phone numbers incessantly for mere moments each call...)
Detect and shut them down almost as instantly as they start up.
Some commonsense thresholds would prevent this automatic detection/shutdown from adversely effecting legitimate phone users.
Generally I can have them screaming by the end of the call.
Act interested. Ask appropriate questions. Act like you are going to take the bait. Tell them our credit card is in the other room. If they ask for an email use a really long email adress, I use walter.throckmorton@infosystemsnorthwest.com and it takes four or five tries to get it right.
A good call goes 5-10 minutes. I make up credit card numbers and ensure that they can’t hear certain digits.
If everyone messed with them and wasted their time they would go away.
Consider it a game. You win if they start yelling.
Thanks! Great to waste their time.
But I was referring to the calls that have no one on the other end. Massively infuriating (yes, want to kill).
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