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CTIA Offers Consumer Advisory on Blocking Unwanted Calls

CTIA posted a list of apps for blocking unwanted calls to cellphones and posted videos on how to use them. “By using these kinds of apps and features, you make the decision of who you want to hear from, and…

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who you want to block,” Krista Witanowski, CTIA assistant vice president-regulatory affairs, said in a Friday consumer advisory. “What could be considered a nuisance call for one, may be important to someone else,” she wrote. “That’s why it’s important blocked calls and texts are directed by the user, not by the wireless carrier.”