Verizon Acting to Fight Unwanted Robocalls

Verizon Wireless is making available to customers a free version of the Call Filter service, offering “spam alerts and more,” the carrier said Thursday. Also this week, Verizon said it started to deploy Stir/Shaken (Secure Telephony Identity Revisited/Secure Handling of Asserted information using toKENs) caller ID technology as part of its network interconnections. “Both tools will offer significant help for consumers who are consistently harassed by unwanted and annoying robocalls,” Verizon said. A full version of Call Filter costs $2.99 a month, per line, Verizon said.