Chairman Pai Proposes Mandating STIR/SHAKEN To Combat Robocalls
Clayton Zekelman
clayton at MNSi.Net
Fri Mar 6 22:54:08 UTC 2020
Good luck supporting it on legacy TDM
switches. I know work-around exist, but nobody
wants to invest any money in modifying legacy gear.
At 05:34 PM 06/03/2020, Sean Donelan wrote:
>https://www.fcc.gov/document/chairman-pai-proposes-mandating-stirshaken-combat-robocalls
>
>Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit
>Pai today proposed a major step forward to
>further the FCCâs efforts to protect consumers against
>spoofed robocalls: new rules requiring
>implementation of caller ID authentication using
>socalled âSTIR/SHAKENâ technological
>standards. STIR/SHAKEN enables phone companies
>to verify the accuracy of caller ID information
>that is transmitted with a call. Industry-wide
>implementation would reduce the effectiveness of
>illegal spoofing, allow law enforcement to
>identify bad actors more easily, and help phone
>companies identify calls with illegally spoofed
>caller ID information before those calls reach their subscribers.
>
>The FCC will vote on these new rules during its Open Meeting on March 31.
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