FCC threatens carriers with ‘regulatory intervention’ over robocalls

Ajit Pai, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), warned phone service providers that if they don’t crack down on fraudulent caller IDs from robocallers his agency will step in with regulation. Pai sent letters to major wireless carriers in November demanding that they adopt industry-wide frameworks to crackdown on the practice of “spoofing,” where robocallers mask a call’s origin with a fraudulent number on their caller ID. “Caller ID authentication will be a significant step towards ending the scourge of spoofed robocalls,” Pai said in his statement.

Source: thehill.com