As a bipartisan bill to combat robocalls head to President Donald Trump’s desk, the Federal Communications Commission and the Canadian Radiotelevision and Telecommunications Commission continue to pursue broader deployment of a standards-based call authentication framework designed to help better identify — and hopefully, reduce — unwanted and scam robocalls.
This week, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and Ian Scott, chairperson and CEO of the CRTC, made the first cross-border call supported with the STIR/SHAKEN framework (Secure Telephone Identity Revisited/Signature-based Handling of Asserted Information Using toKENs), which aims tolet mobile phone users know that a received call has been verified as actually coming from the number it purports to be from — as opposed to being spoofed, a common tactic for scammers and unwanted robocallers.
