Cable / Telecom News

FCC steps up international robocall tracking


WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Communications Commission is calling on phone companies which facilitate inbound international robocall traffic into the U.S. to fully participate in efforts to trace back those calls. FCC Enforcement Bureau chief Rosemary Harold has sent letters to seven U.S. gateway service providers asking for their support in tracking down the originators of illegal spoofed foreign robocalls, says an FCC news release Tuesday. The gateway service providers who were sent letters are All Access Telecom, Globex Telecom, Piratel, Talkie Communications, Telcast Networks, ThinQ, and Third Base International Telecom. (The letters are all available here.) The letters went...