Neustar Demos Anti-Robocall Commercial Solutions to FCC
Neustar demonstrated to the FCC existing and forthcoming products that could combat illegal robocalling, during a meeting with Wireline and Consumer and Governmental Affairs bureau staffers, including CGB acting Chief Patrick Webre. A docket 17-97 filing posted Tuesday said the…
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agency should expedite implementation of the Signature-based Handling of Asserted Information Using toKENs (Shaken) and Secure Telephone Identity Revisited (Stir) framework by having the North American Numbering Council create a working group to act as the secure telephone identity-governance authority and using the pooling administrator as a route for quickly establishing a security telephone identity-policy administrator. Commercial solutions now use calling name infrastructure to warn consumers of suspect calls and apply call pattern and behavior analysis to detect unwanted robocalling and suspicious activity, and let verified owners specify which phone numbers don't originate calls, to create an authoritative do-not-originate blacklist. Commissioners adopted a call authentication notice of inquiry in July (see 1707130054).