Security News > 2020 > March > Phone carriers may soon be forced to adopt anti-robocall tech
US carriers haven't been doing enough to block robocalls, according to the Federal Communications Commission, so its chairman, Ajit Pai, has proposed a set of rules that would force carriers to block robocalls.
In November 2018, Pai asked the phone carriers to adopt a technology framework called SHAKEN/STIR to help solve the problem.
In a SHAKEN/STIR interaction, the originating caller's phone sends an authentication request along with their phone number to a STIR authentication service.
The industry's response to Pai's request was muted, so in February 2019 he warned that if carriers didn't step up, he'd introduce regulations to make them use the technology to block robocalls.
Carriers would have to adopt them by 30 June 2021, although a proposed extension would give small and rural providers an extra year.