State AGs Warn More Providers in Operation Robocall Roundup
Multiple state attorneys general said Wednesday that their Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force was warning Lumen, Peerless, Inteliquent and Bandwidth about ongoing illegal robocall traffic on their networks.
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“The ridiculous flood of illegal robocalls in Oklahoma and around the country must come to an end," state Attorney General Gentner Drummond (R) said. Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown (D) said the task force's message "is simple: do more to stop these invasive calls now or face the consequences,"
The task force said the four companies are continuing to transmit large amounts of suspected illegal robocall traffic despite years of documented warnings and numerous industry traceback notices.
It sent similar letters about robocalls to 37 smaller providers in August as part of Operation Robocall Roundup (see 2508070059). As a result, 13 companies were removed from the FCC’s Robocall Mitigation Database, so no U.S. provider could accept their call traffic, and 19 stopped appearing in traceback results, indicating they ceased routing suspected illegal robocalls, the states said. At least four providers also terminated high-risk customer accounts identified as transmitting illegal traffic.
The states said Inteliquent had received 9,712 traceback notices since 2019, while Lumen had received 7,265, Peerless 5,662 and Bandwidth 3,060.
The four providers didn't comment.