You’re About to Get Fewer Robocalls. But Maybe Not for Long.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/opinion/robocalls-phone-scams.html [www.nytimes.com]
2019-04-25 02:09
Major telecom companies, including AT&T, Comcast, T-Mobile and Verizon, have announced that they will voluntarily adopt the dual technologies known as Secure Telephone Identity Revisited and Signature-Based Handling of Asserted Information Using Tokens, known collectively as STIR/Shaken.
The industrywide use of STIR/Shaken should hamper the prolific robocall industry by making it harder to fake calling from a number belonging to someone else. But will that be enough to end the onslaught of robocalls we all live with today?