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AT&T is finally cracking down on robocalls to select Android phones
AT&T on Wednesday unveiled a new tool in the eternal struggle against spammers and robocallers — a call display that, if you ask anyone frustrated …
AT&T will finally help users effectively block harassing robocalls
Over the past few years, annoying robocalls have seemingly become inescapable and, for some, an everyday nuisance. Last year alone, there were upwards of 48 …
The FCC is finally taking robocalls seriously
Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai quoted a late Democratic Senator from South Carolina, Fritz Hollings, in an op-ed he penned for USA Today Thursday …
iOS 13 could bring our robocall nightmare to an end
Among the scores of new features and updates that await iOS users when the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system arrives this fall is …
A serious fight against robocalls could finally be imminent, thanks to the FCC
Hardly anyone needs a reminder of how pervasive the problem of robocalls has become, or how ineffective the action against them has been up to …
Beware: This new robocall scam could cost you big time
It seems that robocallers have have begun to evolve a bit, as media coverage brings increased scrutiny and potential regulatory action in response to their …
T-Mobile and Comcast are now working together to fight robocalls
The fight against the barrage of spam calls and robocalls continues to pick up steam, as a pair of rival carriers announced today that they’re …
FTC slaps companies responsible for billions of robocalls with multi-million dollar fines
Over the past few years, spam calls have become an increasing and seemingly inescapable nuisance. In 2018 alone, a report found that the number of …
AT&T and Comcast are actually working together to stop robocalls
It’s been said that war makes strange bedfellows, and now we can say the same thing about the out-of-control problem of robocalls and spam calls …
2,024 robocalls were received in the US every second in February
February was another bad month in terms of the scourge of robocalls, which remain a pretty out-of-control problem in the US. The total number of …
New report shows the number of robocalls grew a whopping 325% worldwide last year
The team behind caller ID service Hiya has taken advantage of the attention generated by MWC this week to release its Global Robocall Radar Report, …
This extremely detailed new Caller ID makes it harder for robocallers to trick you
By one measure, robocalls bombarded US smartphone owners with almost 50 billion calls last year. It’s an out-of-control problem that’s certainly part of the reason …
Verizon is releasing a new app next month to fight robocalls
We cover the widespread — and still growing — problem of robocalls and spam calls pretty extensively, in part because the people behind this seem …
Verizon is giving subscribers free robocall and spam protection tools
In an effort to curb the recent epidemic of spam and robocalls, Verizon announced this week that it will be giving all of its customers …
Spammers bombarded mobile phones in the US with 48 billion robocalls in 2018
Preliminary year-end data is in on the explosive growth in robocalls to cell phones in the US, with more people than ever getting bombarded by …
Robocalls are out of control, and these were the most common types in 2018
People seem to be actually answering their phones less and less these days, also using them to make fewer calls when texting and social network …
Lawmakers are finally preparing to take action to stop all those annoying robocalls
It’s not exactly asecret that robocalls have gotten out of control. According to data published last month by Consumer Reports, about one-third of all calls …
FCC tells phone carriers to have a system ready to combat robocalls by 2019
Robocalls have become so frequent and unavoidable in recent months that US Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai this week sent a letter to thirteen …
