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An appeals court threw out part of a Federal Communications Commission regulation aimed at reducing automated telephone solicitations, weakening a 2015 effort to squelch the scourge of so-called robocalls.
The rule was aimed at calls generated by auto-dialing devices. But its language was too broad, and could be construed to prohibit calls from any smartphone, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in a unanimous opinion Friday.
[...] Unwanted calls, including robocalls, are the top consumer complaint to the FCC, with more than 200,000 such comments received annually, according to the agency. Some private analyses estimate that U.S. consumers received about 2.4 billion robocalls per month in 2016.
[...] Because under the FCC's rule "any uninvited call or message from the device is a statutory violation," regular smartphone users could face a $500 penalty for calls -- such as inviting a person to a party -- without first getting consent to contact them, the judges said.
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(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Tuesday March 20 2018, @12:24AM
Absolutely a good idea. What's more, you can download an ISO of an Asterisk implementation [asterisk.org] and configure it for your needs. Easy peasy. Hardware requirements/recommendations [voip-info.org] are also available.
Unfortunately, that doesn't help with *mobile* phones. Granted, you can set up white [google.com] (and black) lists on mobile phones, but it's still annoying to have deal with that bullshit.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr