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FCC ADOPTS RULES TO ALLOW PHONE COMPANIES TO
PROACTIVELY BLOCK ILLEGAL ROBOCALLS
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has just adopted new rules that will allow your phone company to block some “robo calls” before they reach your phone.
“To combat these scams the new rules approved (November 16th, 2017) expressly authorize voice service providers to block robo calls that appear to be from telephone numbers that do not or cannot make outgoing calls, without running afoul of the FCC’s call completion rules.” – from the FCC’s press release
If you have ever been bothered by a robo calls or a call from a fake IRS agent telling you will be arrested, no doubt this will be good news.
And while the rule is good news, it will not stop every robo call and it will not help unless the phone companies use the ruling and new technologies to block the scammers and robo calls.
We are asking consumers who would like to have these calls blocked to call their phone company and ask how they can apply for the blocking technology. We are hoping if enough people call, the phone companies will use the new rules to help consumers.
FCC ADOPTS RULES TO ALLOW PHONE COMPANIES TO
PROACTIVELY BLOCK ILLEGAL ROBOCALLS
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has just adopted new rules that will allow your phone company to block some “robo calls” before they reach your phone.
“To combat these scams the new rules approved (November 16th, 2017) expressly authorize voice service providers to block robo calls that appear to be from telephone numbers that do not or cannot make outgoing calls, without running afoul of the FCC’s call completion rules.” – from the FCC’s press release
If you have ever been bothered by a robo calls or a call from a fake IRS agent telling you will be arrested, no doubt this will be good news.
And while the rule is good news, it will not stop every robo call and it will not help unless the phone companies use the ruling and new technologies to block the scammers and robo calls.
We are asking consumers who would like to have these calls blocked to call their phone company and ask how they can apply for the blocking technology. We are hoping if enough people call, the phone companies will use the new rules to help consumers.