From WKBN.com….
Have you noticed a drop off in robocalls this week?
In April, there were 4.4 billion robocalls in the United States, according to robocall-prevention service YouMail. The Federal Communications Commission is trying to end those unwanted phone calls.
The FCC’s STIR/SHAKEN caller identification framework went into effect on Thursday.
According to the FCC, under STIR/SHAKEN calls traveling through phone networks would have their caller ID “signed” as legitimate by originating carriers and validated by other carriers before reaching consumers. STIR/SHAKEN digitally validates the handoff of phone calls passing through the networks, allowing the phone company of the consumer receiving the call to verify that a call is in fact from the number displayed on Caller ID.
“STIR/SHAKEN enables phone companies to verify that the caller ID information transmitted with a call matches the caller’s real phone number,” according to the FCC.
