Josh Stein, North Carolina’s attorney general, adjudged Robocalls as “scourge, scamming and annoying” and urged industry players to eliminate robocalls.
Robocalls are phone calls that utilize computerized autodialers in the delivery of illegitimate pre-recorded information.
They have become a menace in the US. As a result, various US state attorneys and telecom companies resolved to come up with principles to curb illegal robocalls on August 22.
The regulations give telecoms the power to utilize technological advancements in their networks to deduce whether the origins of the calls are legitimate. As a result, the robocall traffic will be monitored.
Stein’s office stipulated that some of the telecom firms involved included T-Mobile, AT &T, Verizon, Sprint, and Comcast.
New regulations to curb robocalls
The US industry players who met on August 22 came up with new regulations so that robocalls could be stopped. For instance, carriers were prompted to implement strategies aimed at blocking calls whose origins were suspicious.
Expressly, some principles acknowledged the importance of wielding technology in stopping mass-delivered and automated calls from dodgy marketers or con artists.
Stein also asserted that the eight principles signed by telecommunications companies would be instrumental in tracking down criminals who fraudulently use robocalls.
Robocalls propelled by telecom technology
Telecom technology has enabled the creation of programs capable of making automatic internet robocalls to thousands of people. This has enhanced the disguise of numbers and delivery of spam messages.
As a result, these calls have appeared to be from legitimate establishments or local residences, whereas this is not the scenario.
Truecaller, a mobile app maker, stipulates that fraud emerging from robocalls made Americans lose approximately over ten billion dollars ($10.5B) from April 2018 to April 2019.
Nevertheless, US telecom firms have been trying to crack down on spammers utilizing robocalls.
Alex Quilici, YouMail’s chief executive, asserts that robocalls are widespread as they are cheap and easily made.
As robocalls are wreaking havoc in the US, Huawei is continuously getting tremendous support from Southeast Asia despite the US ban.
