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US Attorneys General will take legal action against telecom providers enabling robocalls:
The Attorneys General of all 50 states have joined forces in hopes of giving teeth to the seemingly never-ending fight against robocalls. North Carolina AG Josh Stein, Indiana AG Todd Rokita and Ohio AG Dave Yost are leading the formation of the new Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force. In Stein's announcement, he said the group will focus on taking legal action against telecoms, particularly gateway providers, allowing or turning a blind eye to foreign robocalls made to US numbers.
He explained that gateway providers routing foreign phone calls into the US telephone network have the responsibility under the law to ensure the traffic they're bringing in is legal. Stein said that they mostly aren't taking any action to keep robocalls out of the US phone network, though, and they're even intentionally allowing robocall traffic through in return for steady revenue in many cases.
Recently: FCC Orders Phone Carriers to Block Scammers Behind 8 Billion Robocalls.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by drussell on Monday August 08 2022, @03:57PM (1 child)
At the carrier / wholesale level, you normally pay some tiny fraction of a cent per minute for incoming call completion, and it's usually about double whatever the outgoing call termination fee is, so yes it is normally cheaper to make the call than it is to receive that call at the wholesale level.
What the customer pays at the consumer level isn't what we're talking about here...
Even at the small-enterprise level where wholesale prices are inflated compared to what a large organization or carrier would pay, you can easily see how this works in the actual phone system. Let's say you have a company with 100 phone numbers, one for each of your extensions sitting on each employees desk. You probably pay something like $0.85 per month for each of your DID numbers (the phone number for each employee's extension,) then perhaps $0.008/minute for incoming calls on any of your lines, and $0.004/minute for outgoing calls to other numbers within your country. These are typical prices for a small organization using VOIP trunking into their company's local PBX.
(Score: 2) by EvilSS on Wednesday August 10 2022, @12:45AM
go read the comment I replied to because that is exactly what we are talking about here.