Twilio CEO Khozema Shipchandler and others from the company met with FCC Chairman Brendan Carr about ways to target and eliminate unlawful robocalls, said a filing Friday in docket 17-59. They “discussed the Commission’s efforts to strengthen STIR/SHAKEN to combat illegal robocalls and the actions that Twilio has taken to do the same,” the filing said.

AT&T is using AI for a new spam filter that talks to callers to determine whether a call is suspicious. “We’ve taken years of data and knowledge about how spam and fraud works -- and our algorithms for fighting them -- to create this new powerful tool,” the company said Tuesday. It plans to offer the filter to select customers this year.

Consumers’ Research and its allies made additional arguments at the FCC for why the agency should zero out the USF contribution factor for Q4 (see 2508110021), despite the U.S. Supreme Court decision that the factor is constitutional (see 2506270054).

Consensus is emerging among public safety groups on some issues as the FCC considers rules for next-generation 911, the National Emergency Number Association said in reply comments Monday in docket 21-479. Replies are due Wednesday on a Further NPRM that commissioners approved 4-0 in March (see 2503270042).

Deleting parts of the FCC’s E-rate rules would help the program, E-rate advocates said in meetings with staff for Commissioners Anna Gomez and Olivia Trusty. Representatives of the Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition, the American Library Association and the School Superintendents Association attended, said a filing posted Monday in docket 25-133.

ZP, which works with people who have hearing disabilities, notified the FCC on Thursday that it launched ZP for Zoom, “designed to enhance accessibility and provide greater access” to meetings using the videoconferencing platform. The app “integrates directly with the Zoom platform to enhance Video Relay Service calls,” said a filing in docket 03-123.

A lawsuit against NTIA regarding use of the BEAD program's non-deployment funding "might be inevitable," wrote CCG Consulting President Doug Dawson in a blog post Friday. "It's hard not to imagine a coalition of State Attorneys General from red and blue states together suing NTIA" to get those funds, he said, citing Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry's (R) letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick emphasizing that how non-deployment funding is spent is up to the states.

CTIA, NCTA and USTelecom met with aides to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr on their request to overturn a January declaratory ruling and NPRM addressing the Salt Typhoon cyberattacks (see 2501160041). The ruling found that Section 105 of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act requires “carriers to secure their networks from unlawful access or interception of communications.” The association representatives “discussed measures that providers are taking to address past and ongoing threats to cybersecurity, including risk management and remediation,” said a filing posted Thursday in docket 22-329.

Twilio representatives spoke with an aide to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr about ways to better address unlawful robocalls and robocall fraud. “Persistent robocalls, impersonation of trusted institutions, and multifaceted schemes, such as inbound voice fraud using multiple carrier networks, contribute directly to the fraud the industry is seeing today,” said a filing posted Monday in docket 17-59. Twilio also noted that the “increased sophistication of bad actors, such as masked digital forensics, targeted ‘spearfishing,’ and account takeovers, are especially difficult to detect and prevent.”

CTIA, NCTA and USTelecom urged the FCC to act on their request to overturn a January declaratory ruling and NPRM addressing the Salt Typhoon cyberattacks (see 2501160041). The ruling concluded that Section 105 of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) “affirmatively requires telecommunications carriers to secure their networks from unlawful access or interception of communications.”