FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

Fri Dec 20 22:23:23 UTC 2019

On December 20, 2019 at 08:00 nanog at ics-il.net (Mike Hammett) wrote:
 > I can't imagine many telcos are making a lot of money from voice anymore.

They may not be making a huge amount anymore which may be why they're
now allowing (i.e., not fighting/lobbying) these folks to be thrown
under the bus before someone shines a light on them.

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 > From: bzs at theworld.com
 > To: "nanog" <nanog at nanog.org>
 > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2019 5:11:17 PM
 > Subject: RE: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls
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 > 
 > They should be fining the telcos, they're making a lot of money on
 > these calls.
 > 
 > And if you believe otherwise (e.g., that it's like email spam) you've
 > been duped by telco PR.
 > 
 > Unlike spam when was the last time a telco failed to bill you for a
 > billable phone call? Never.
 > 
 > They know exactly who is using their system. And they get paid for
 > it. And these junk callers are making millions of calls per hour when
 > they're active.
 > 
 > The entire telco infrastructure has been described as a billing system
 > with some added voice features.
 > 
 > Try devising a box which makes millions of voice calls per hour and
 > see how long it takes before you're stopped dead until you agree to
 > pay the telcos for those calls, or get arrested.
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