“American’s are fed up with robocalling.”
National ComTel has never been a proponent for this marketing style, and over the years we have turned away many robocalling companies wanting to utilize our services. We too receive calls on a daily basis and it is a major PITA. Let’s hope that the FCC does right for the homes and businesses.
“Americans have a right to be fed up,” continued the Chair. “It’s an invasion of privacy, rife with fraud and identity theft… The bad guys are beating the good guys with technology.” It’s the number one complaint that we hear from consumers on a daily basis,” with more than 200,000 gripes being filed with the FCC each year—and that’s just from the very small number of people who take the time to file a complaint.
Last month, after FCC Chair Tom Wheeler called on the telecom industry to finally do something about the nuisance of pre-recorded, auto-dialed robocalls, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson agreed to head up a joint private-public Robocall Strike Force tasked with actually doing something about these calls. Today, this elite squad of telephonic titans is meeting for the first time. The Strike Force has been given a deadline of 60 days (Oct. 19) to lay down a clearer path toward a world with fewer automated calls that aren’t just obnoxious, but are often illegal. MORE…
