Unwanted Calls Database Burden Needs to Be on Callers' Shoulders, NTCA Says
Unwanted phone calls to reassigned numbers are a consumer nuisance, but the FCC in tackling it needs to avoid putting unnecessary costs on rural carriers. Instead, that burden should be on the callers in need of reassigned numbers data to…
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avoid running afoul of the law, NTCA told Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau staff, relayed a docket 17-59 filing Wednesday. It said the most expeditious path is expanded use of already available commercial reassigned numbers databases, paired with safe harbor protection for callers' use of the databases. NTCA argued against database access being at low cost or free and said an FCC-created database would take too long to implement -- potentially several years.