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Most of the robocalls you get aren't coming from AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile numbers
Most of the robocalls you get aren't coming from AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile numbers
A new report suggests that the United States' top mobile carriers are making headway in the fight against annoying robocalls.
The data analytics company Transaction Network Services (TNS) released its bi-annual "Robocall Report" on Thursday, and some of the emerging unwanted call trends included an increase in hijacking mobile numbers and a shift to spoofing toll-free numbers.
However, the most promising news for consumers was that only 12% of high-risk calls received during the first six months of 2019 originated from numbers owned by AT&T, CenturyLink, Comcast, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon.
These carriers account for 70% of the nation's overall call volume.
Bill Versen, the chief product officer at TNS, said in a statement that means top-tier carriers are successfully blocking more robocalls. He added that regulatory and policy action, as well as the adoption of AI and advanced data analytics, have made it "more difficult for bad actors to place scam and fraud robocalls."
Versen also warns that it's too soon to call that a victory.
"The report suggests the need for diligence as the battlefront may shift to smaller regional and rural carriers further behind on their path to a call authentication framework and utilizing call data analytics," Versen said.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 14 2019, @05:54PM (2 children)
"However, the most promising news for consumers was that only 12% of high-risk calls received during the first six months of 2019 originated from numbers owned by AT&T, CenturyLink, Comcast, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon."
It doesn't matter to me what carrier these calls come from. I've known people who are s tupi d enough to have been scammed. The fact that they didn't come from the numbers owned by Verizon or some other carrier not on that list makes them no less annoying. The person who has been scammed I'm sure doesn't care either. So this isn't good news, it's irrelevant news. When I stop receiving so many scam calls, wherever they originate, is when you can claim victory.
What's up with this lameness filter?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 14 2019, @05:57PM (1 child)
Sorry, added these lines to the above post but then I had to keep changing it to figure out where the lameness filter was being triggered and ended up deleting these lines.
I still receive a lot of scam calls. While I just hang up on them I know people who have been scammed. The point is that I'm not really noticing a decline in the number of scam calls I receive and that's what really matters, not where the calls originate.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 14 2019, @06:36PM
I agree the lameness filter is lame.
Switch to poting by cell phone, vs home pc.. I guess they do not like that cookie at deleted eveery 15 seconds.