On Monday this week (October 3, 2022), the FCC announced plans to remove 7 companies from the robocall mitigation database for non-compliance – unless they get their act together in the next 14 days. Which service providers? Per the order, the following 7 service providers received a notice from the FCC: Akabis Cloud4 Global UC… Continue Reading
STIR-SHAKEN
Huge growth in robocalls signed with SHAKEN certificates
In June this year, 37% of calls signed with B-level attestation were robocalls, while only 7% of unsigned calls were robocalls. In other words, if you see a call that has been signed with a STIR/SHAKEN B-level attestation, that means it’s more likely to be a robocall. That isn’t how things were supposed to work…. Continue Reading
Reassigned Numbers Database – Overview
On Monday November 1, 2021 the FCC opened up the Reassigned Numbers Database to users. This database is an attempt to reduce the number of unwanted calls that people receive – by avoiding those unwanted calls that result from a number being disconnected and then reassigned. The basic idea is simple. Every month, service providers… Continue Reading
SHAKEN Out-of-Band PASSporT Transmission
On July 15, the ATIS Non-IP Call Authentication Task Force published two standards that could potentially solve the issue of STIR/SHAKEN in TDM networks. In our previous article we looked at one of the options – STIR/SHAKEN over TDM – which finds ways to signal attestation information (one small but important part of STIR/SHAKEN) via… Continue Reading
STIR/SHAKEN over TDM
We’ve spent the last several years figuring out how to implement STIR/SHAKEN on IP networks, all while knowing that there was no agreement in place for how to do the same thing on TDM networks… a rather significant flaw in the plan. The FCC’s position on this problem has been that service providers could have… Continue Reading
Robocall Mitigation and STIR/SHAKEN Last-Minute Checklist
It’s less than two weeks until the FCC’s STIR/SHAKEN deadline on June 30. If you have any lingering doubts about the requirements, then we’ve prepared this checklist to help make sure you didn’t miss anything. (Be warned: We are not lawyers, this is not legal advice, it’s possible we missed something.) #1: Do you qualify… Continue Reading