UPI reports that for Americans who are tired of receiving robocalls, help may be on the way Wednesday.
A robocall is precisely what it sounds like — an automated recording at the other end of the line promoting or selling something. Often times, it’s an illegal scam. And federal regulators are starting to get tough with them.
Beginning Wednesday, major U.S. phone providers — including AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Comcast — are required by the Federal Communications Commission to implement technology known as STIR/SHAKEN to prevent rampant spam calls.
With the new technology, illegal scammers are no longer allowed to purport to be from the Internal Revenue Service, a financial institution or a well-known company, for example.
The technology uses a caller ID system to verify whether calls on a provider’s network are truly coming from the number on display.
Smaller providers with fewer than 100,000 subscribers are not required to implement the technology for another two years.
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