Aggressive Carrier Blocking Sans Safe Harbor Unlikely, Numeracle Says; FNPRM Released
Robocall technology company Numeracle sees problems with the robocall ruling approved by the FCC Thursday (see 1906060056). “This ruling does not give clear direction on how the carriers can more aggressively block robocalls when the FCC has still not defined…
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what constitutes a ‘legal,’ ‘illegal,’ ‘wanted,’ or ‘unwanted’ call based on the reasonable analytics that are available and in-use today,” a spokesperson emailed. “To avoid the improper blocking of legal calls, we do not believe the carriers will agree to implement more aggressive tools without a safe harbor and a defined process for accurately identifying the entities behind the call.” The agency released the declaratory ruling and Further NPRM Friday.