The bipartisan legislation expanded the power of the Federal Communications Commission to deter spam calls and reinforced the responsibility of individual phone companies to protect their own consumers.
"With this legislation, phone companies will be required to give all consumers meaningful new protections against these calls and Americans will finally get some relief from the ringing telephone," Maureen Mahoney, policy analyst withA cellular phone customer looks at a call log displayed via an AT&T app on her cellphone at her home in Orlando, Fla., Aug. 1, 2017.
"The key is requiring these phone companies to help stop the calls before they reach the consumer and do it at no additional charge," she told The AP.that Americans collectively receive each month on cellphones, this new legislation thrusts the responsibility on service providers to block those calls from ever reaching consumers.
The FCC is also now required do more to try to protect hospitals because robocalls can divert staffers' attention when they appear to come from inside the hospital.
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