FCC Shouldn't Provide Safe Harbor for Blocking Legitimate Calls, Microsoft Says
Microsoft told FCC Chief Technology Officer Eric Burger the FCC shouldn’t provide a safe harbor for blocking legitimate voice calls as part of its attack on robocalls. “The FCC has never before authorized a voice provider to block a legitimate…
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voice call without first obtaining customer consent to do so,” Microsoft said in a filing posted Monday in docket 17-59. “The voice network was developed and operated based on a carrier having a duty to deliver the signal, without regard for the contents of that signal or the identity of the sender. Reliable operation of the network has always been of paramount importance.”