Shorten Stir/Shaken Deadlines: Blumenthal to FCC
Senate Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., urged the FCC to “take action to strengthen our anti-robocall laws, require carriers to block illegal marketing, and bring enforcement actions against the culprits and enablers.” He cited “the drastic increase in…
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unsolicited text messages” in July, totaling 7.1 billion, and the estimated 5.74 billion robocalls consumers received then. “I encourage the FCC to move forward to require more telephone carriers” to implement anti-robocall actions mandated in the 2019 Pallone-Thune Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence (Traced) Act, including the secure telephone identity revisited (Stir) and signature-based handling of asserted information using tokens (Shaken) protocol, Blumenthal said Friday in a letter to acting FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel. “While I appreciate that some smaller carriers may require additional help to upgrade their networks, the FCC’s current timetable means that consumers may not see full relief from robocalls until June 2023.” Rosenworcel “shares [Blumenthal’s] desire to put an end to the consumer plague of unwanted robocalls and texts,” a spokesperson emailed. “We are reviewing the letter and its recommendations.”