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FCC will vote whether to delete net neutrality on December 14

sudshr47 November 21, 2017

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai today made good on his long-standing pledge to tackle regulations established in the last administration designed to protect the distribution of internet content. On Tuesday Pai distributed a draft of his suggested rule changes under the auspices of the “Restoring Internet Freedom Order” to the other commissioners at the FCC. The… Read More

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Here’s how the FCC just challenged the scourge of robocallers

sudshr47 November 16, 2017

Americans may get around 2.4 billion robocalls a month, so the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just endowed phone companies with a new weapon.

On Thursday, the FCC announced that phone companies — like Sprint and AT&T — can now proactively block certain phone numbers before a robocall can even happen.

According to the FCC, technological innovations allow robocallers to easily impersonate phone numbers that don’t actually dial out, such as from the IRS, while hiding the true caller’s identity. These intrusive efforts are an enormous frustration to Americans: The FCC says it receives 200,000 complaints about robocalls every month — making it the FCC’s top consumer complaint. Read more…

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