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FINAL NEW 5_47 PM Copy of PDF MARCH 23 REPORT - Google Docs

22 Mar 2021

• Only four of the 20 say they routinely What does this mean? It means the show on-screen check marks next to industry isn’t doing nearly as much as the caller’s name or other verifications hoped to fight the crime that for years has to customers that calls are coming caused so much heartache and from the number that’s actually on the aggravation among consumers caller ID. [...] It could be because no phone number is possible with that Over the years, regulators including the FCC combination of area code and prefix, or and FTC started trying to crack down on because the number belongs to a robocalls not only by charging and shutting company or government office that down the robocall operations, but also going doesn’t accept incoming calls to that after the phone companie. [...] In June 2019, the FCC voted unanimously to allow phone companies to block some calls The technology allows a company they believe are scam or spoof calls by default, originating a call to verify the call is as long as they give consumers the chance to actually coming from the number on the opt back in. [...] “If the smaller providers weren’t a big part of the With caller ID authentication, the hope problem, maybe a little more time is that the majority of scam calls will get would be warranted,” Ohio Attorney blocked and the ones that get through General Dave Yost said in a statement. [...] 30, 2019, The FCC originally approved the 2023 passed the TRACED Act, giving the deadline but now says that for some FCC the authority to enforce the caller smaller providers, there is “new ID verification rules.
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