Industry Asks FCC for Broad Safe Harbor on Cutting Robocalls

CTIA, NCTA and USTelecom seek "broad safe harbor that promotes voice service providers' good-faith efforts to combat abusive robocalls" (see 1908260021). They met with staff from the FCC Wireline and Consumer Affairs bureaus Wednesday, said a letter posted Monday in docket 17-97. Comcast said about 14.25 percent of calls originating on other voice providers' networks and bound for its residential subscribers had end-to-end call authentication, known as secure handling of asserted information using tokens (Shaken) and secure telephone identity revisited (Stir).