{"id":1183878,"date":"2023-09-20T14:25:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T18:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1183878"},"modified":"2023-09-20T14:25:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T18:25:44","slug":"fcc-plays-whack-a-mole-with-telcos-accused-of-profiting-from-robocalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1183878","title":{"rendered":"FCC plays whack-a-mole with telcos accused of profiting from robocalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/robot-phone-headset-800x480-1.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration of a robot wearing a headset for talking on the phone.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/robot-phone-headset.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1500\" data-width=\"2500\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: Getty Images | Thamrongpat Theerathammakorn)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A suspicious phone company is on the verge of having all its calls blocked by US-based telcos after being accused of ignoring orders to investigate and block robocalls.<\/p>\n<p>One Owl Telecom is a US-based gateway provider that routes phone calls from outside the US to consumer phone companies such as Verizon. &#8220;Robocalls on One Owl&#8217;s network apparently bombarded consumers without their consent with prerecorded messages about fictitious orders,&#8221; the Federal Communications Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/document\/fcc-accelerates-robocall-blocking-efforts-against-gateway-provider\">said yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On August 1, the FCC sent One Owl a <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.fcc.gov\/public\/attachments\/DOC-395607A1.pdf\">Notification of Suspected Illegal Robocall Traffic<\/a> ordering it to investigate robocall traffic identified by USTelecom&#8217;s Industry Traceback Group, block all of the identified traffic within 14 days, and &#8220;continue to block the identified gateway traffic as well as substantially similar traffic on an ongoing basis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1969755#p3\">Read 14 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1969755&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1969755\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FCC plays whack-a-mole with telcos accused of profiting from robocalls<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Thamrongpat Theerathammakorn) A suspicious phone company is on the verge of having all its calls blocked by US-based telcos after being accused of ignoring orders to investigate and block robocalls. One Owl Telecom is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1183878\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1183879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1183878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1183878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1183879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1183878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1183878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1183878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}