Robocalls are rampant despite the Do Not Call list — FCC urges phone providers to help stop them

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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is warning phone providers to implement technology to stop telemarketing scammers or face new government rules.

suggests that Americans looking to reduce the number of unwanted calls sign up. The FTC said consumers who still get scam calls can file a complaint.

Pai, whose agency works with the FTC to prevent robocalls, said telemarketing calls are the No. 1 complaint at the FCC and the top consumer protection priority."We really beefed up our enforcement efforts. The largest fines in the FCC's 85-year history have been imposed on robocallers who have been bombarding American consumers with these scam calls.

"Because of the internet we can get all of these calls from abroad [and] they seem to be coming from a local source," Pai said."We empowered some of the carriers to block calls that obviously spoofed; so the same area code, the next three digits are same. We want to empower them to take action."

 

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Another example of government that can’t do its job - and the Left thinks government should be bigger. Just don’t get it - take the worst business in the world and make it bigger - guess to satisfy their own egos.

Telecom is more than happy to be complicit in every other govt program — why not this?

FCC How about increasing enforcement the Do Not Call list? Unless you're telling us that your own Do Not Call list is ineffective?

Phone providers like AT&T want to charge a monthly fee to stop them. The FCC is out of touch.

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