by Harry Wakefield, Marketing Communications, TelcoBridges
TelcoBridges executives were in Chicago this week for the 2018 IIT RTC Conference and Expo. Our own Alan Percy sat down and recorded a podcast with FCC Chief Technology Officer Eric Burger, discussing one of our favourite subjects, robocalling fraud and actions the FCC is taking to protect consumers.
Listen at: https://youtu.be/nUTA2m1Chnk
Our conversation touched on several aspects:
- how it’s the #1 consumer protection issue right now for the FCC
- it’s also personal, Mr. Burger’s phone actually rang with a robocall during his presentation! (not planned)
- says he, it’s a “real problem with real impacts”
- how to handle fraudulent robocalling vs legitimate uses by automated dialling systems
- neighbourhood spoofing and related legislation
- recent actions by the FCC including very large fines
- the more than $200 million dollars in fines levied so far this year (a record)
- new technologies that can help like STIR/SHAKEN
- a progress report on that technology
- the parts, the goals, and the implementation of STIR/SHAKEN
- the roles of the vendors and carriers and a timeline for the deployment
- and last thoughts, “there’s hope!”
Learn more about STIR/SHAKEN during a webinar TelcoBridges hosted with TransNexus at: https://freesbc.telcobridges.com/video-library/#Robo
