The Federal Communications Commission continues to look for additional ways to foil scam and fraudulent robocalling operations, and it’s considering changing its rules around who has access to U.S. phone numbers as one of its strategies.
The FCC voted unanimously this week to take public comment on proposed rule changes around interconnected Voice over IP providers’ direct access to phone numbers, in order to “address problems that have arisen from the growth of widely available VoIP software that can allow bad actors to make spoofed robocalls with minimal technical experience and cost,” the agency said.
