“This agreement brings phone service providers on board as critical allies in our fight against illegal robocalls,” Yost said in the release. “By adopting these commonsense business practices, service providers will reinforce our ongoing efforts to crack down on this growing nuisance.”
According to his office, under this new initiative, the partnership will work to prevent illegal robocalls by:
-“Implementing call-blocking technology at the network level at no cost to customers”
-“Providing customers with free, easy-to-use call blocking and labeling tools”
-“Implementing technology to verify that calls are coming from a valid source”
-“Monitoring their networks for robocall traffic”
Yost’s office also says that the phone companies have claimed they will work with the attorneys general to enforce the fight against robocalls by identifying and investigating the bad actors and taking action against suspicious callers, which includes “notifying law enforcement and state attorneys general” and tracing the origins of those illegal calls.
The release says, “Going forward, the phone companies will stay in close communication with the coalition of attorneys general to ensure that robocall protections develop as technology and scam tactics change.”
The full list of phone service providers includes AT&T, Bandwidth, CenturyLink, Charter, Comcast, Consolidated, Frontier, Sprint, T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular, Verizon and Windstream.
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This article appears in Aug 21-27, 2019.
Just to be clear…if you look at the details of this agreement and some of the in depth analysis of it….this agreement adds nothing that the carriers were not already doing, and does not have any deadlines for completing any of it, nor any penalties if they don’t.
Come in Scene, don’t be a PR arm for the state. We expect better of you.
Well, whatever the government will do, I really hope that it will really bring robocall to its end. I’m getting really sick of them! They are persistent and it seems like they will never stop. If only I can find out every caller who’s bombarding my phone everyday, I will sue them like what I read at https://www.whycall.me/news/consumer-wins-… !