Mississippi PSC Chairman Asks if Carriers Profit From Robocalls
Wireless carriers should lose federal USF funding if they don’t do more to fight robocalls, said Mississippi Public Service Commission Chairman Brandon Presley Wednesday. He directed PSC staff to investigate whether carriers profit from robocalls. “No one could do more…
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to stop the scourge of robocalls than cellular companies,” Presley said. “Some have apps, some don’t but all of them should explain to the PSC what they are doing to stop these calls before we approve one more penny of federal money. We should require them to create free robocall blocking technology and develop a plan to stop Caller ID spoofing along with other efforts.” The PSC has been alleging telemarketers broke the No-Call law (see 1803290033 and 1801310013), and has an app for consumers to complain (see 1711010042). “Aggressive FCC and FTC enforcement of bad actors is key to combatting the scourge of illegal robocalls," said CTIA Assistant Vice President-Regulatory Affairs Krista Witanowski in a statement. "We take this issue seriously, and to protect wireless consumers, CTIA and its members have implemented a multifaceted approach that includes technical solutions such as new applications and network-based tools, and industry initiatives such as work to deploy call authentication to mitigate caller id spoofing."