New Verizon Anti-Spam Service an Exception as Industry Responds to Rosenworcel Call
Providers cited anti-robocalling efforts to help consumers but seemed to make few changes in response to FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel's December call they provide consumers with blocking (see 1812120026). One exception was Verizon. "We currently offer free alerts about potential…
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spam calls to customers with certain Android phones, and we will begin rolling out free spam alerting and blocking to all of our customers whose smartphones support those features starting in March," wrote Senior Vice President Kathleen Grillo, posted Monday. Senior Vice President Kathleen Ham wrote that T-Mobile "just rolled out to customers our 'Caller Verified technology, which, for now, implements [Secure Handling of Asserted information using toKENs/Secure Telephony Identity Revisited] standards for calls made to Samsung Note9 smartphones" on its network. "We need to help give consumers a fighting chance against robocalls and I will continue to press this agency and my colleagues to fix this mess," said Rosenworcel, releasing the letters. Also responding were: AT&T, Bandwidth, CenturyLink, Charter Communications, Comcast, Cox Communications, Frontier Communications, Google, Sprint, TDS, U.S. Cellular and Vonage.