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AT&T ramps up its fight against robocalls with Call Validation feature
The Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission have been trying, at least in theory, to stop the robocalling scourge from spreading for many years now, but even though a recent survey estimated a mind-blowing 200 million unwanted calls go through every single day in the US, the nation's major carriers are finally taking action against the thing that threatens to kill the enjoyment of using a mobile phone in this day and age.
Well, at least two of the "big four" American wireless service providers are making a concerted effort to clean their networks of spammers, scammers, and number spoofers, as AT&T follows T-Mobile's suit in implementing the SHAKEN/STIR standard to offer its customers a little more peace of mind when receiving a call from someone they don't know.
[...] Unfortunately, both Call Protect and Call Validation are currently only available on three high-end Android devices. Namely, Samsung's Galaxy S10 and S10+, as well as the LG V40 ThinQ. If it makes you feel any better, you don't have to do anything special to get the newly released feature enabled on the aforementioned smartphones. You will simply start seeing a green checkmark and the words "Valid number" on your handset's display when an incoming call is authenticated. That's a small step forward for one carrier and... an even as a whole.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 19 2019, @11:26PM (2 children)
Blocking means the PHONE DOES NOT RING!
They are just pushing through the call with a random flag yes/no.
Why would the complance want to block calls? They what to charge all for as many things as they can.
IF they ruely wanted to to block these... IT IS SIMPLE... cross check the curcit to the number! That si how they are routing calls in the first place. Look up number and see where the circuit. Take the curcuit and see the number and name. IF do not match kill the call and place the the originating circuit into a the "police" queue for arrest of ID thief.
And you want AT&T other be bad companies to host your DNS?? They cannot even do their right, for their first line business.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday December 20 2019, @05:17AM
Matching circuit to number isn't that easily done when the call comes through another phone company's services. There's always the question whether you trust the other phone company,
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 20 2019, @01:50PM
Please stop posting from your phone. Your comment is a hot mess.