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CU Wants FCC Action on Robocalls as RESA Seeks 'White List'

The FCC should require phone companies to implement “advanced call-blocking tools” and “caller ID authentication technology by a date certain,” said Maureen Mahoney, Consumers Union policy analyst, in a filing in docket 17-59. Mahoney filed Thursday an update based on…

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comments she made at the National Association of Attorneys General’s Summer Meeting. “The FCC should issue the strongest possible rules to protect consumers from unwanted robocalls,” she said. Retail Energy Supply Association reported on a meeting with FCC officials on robocalls. Members depend on telemarketing, RESA said. The FCC should establish a “’white list’ of legitimate callers, prohibit false messages from being sent across the public networks, and make Caller ID mandatory for wireline and wireless networks alike,” RESA said Thursday. “If the Commission deems such measures necessary to protect the integrity of the network for legitimate callers, it should ensure that such rules apply not only to voice service providers but also to blocking/labeling providers.”