AG Curtis Hill urges the FCC to strengthen efforts to stop robocalls
On Monday, Attorney General Curtis Hill urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to encourage telecom companies to implement call blocking and call authentication solutions that would protect consumers from illegal robocalls and spoofing. Yesterday’s comment letter to the FCC comes after Attorney General Hill last week led a coalition of 51 attorneys general and 12 phone companies in unveiling the Anti-Robocall Principles to fight illegal robocalls.In comments to the FCC, the coalition of attorneys general states that telecom providers should:Offer free, automatic call-blocking services to all customers. The call-block services should be based on reasonable analytics and should not block