Category: caller id

FCC could require phone companies to authenticate calls

Post author By Randall
Post date March 6, 2020
Categories In ajit pai, caller id, carriers, fcc, gear, Mobile, Politics, protocol, robocalls, Security, spoofing, stir shaken, Tech, verification, Verizon

[ad_1] Under the STIR/SHAKEN protocol, carriers verify that a call is legitimate (not coming from a spoofed number) before it reaches the recipient. In 2018, Pai urged carriers to implement the protocol by 2019. AT&T, Comcast, T-Mobile and Verizon (Engadget’s parent company) have all implemented the tech in one way or another, but robocalls are […]

FCC Chairman wants to ban caller ID spoofing for text messages

Post author By Randall
Post date July 8, 2019
Categories In ajit pai, ban, business, caller id, chairman, fcc, federal communications commission, gear, international calls, Mobile, Politics, proposed, robocalls, rules, spoofing, Tech, text messages, truth in caller id

[ad_1] “We must attack this problem with every tool we have,” Chairman Pai said. “With these new rules, we’ll close the loopholes that hamstring law enforcement when they try to pursue international scammers and scammers using text messaging.” While the Truth in Caller ID Act prohibits spoofing caller ID information, it did not originally extend […]