Last year’s count was 4.8 million new numbers, 1.9 percent higher than the amount of new numbers logged in 2024, the ...

Today, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai proposed new rules that would require phone companies to adopt the STIR/SHAKEN protocol, an ...

Americans were flooded with a record 5.7 billion robocalls last month — more than 17 per person in October — even as federal regulators try to crack down on the onslaught of prerecorded messages. The ...

Just like many of us, Carol and David Sher have been getting political text messages and robocalls leading up to next Tuesday's elections. "We're getting about four or five robocalls per day," said ...

“Hello! Please don’t hang up… did you know that you could save a bundle on…? This is a robocall, another automated telemarketer. Nowadays, robocalls make up 50 percent of all phone calls made.

In Antioch, Illinois, Linda Hensgen’s quiet life of retirement keeps getting interrupted. Several times a day, her cell and home phone will ring. But when Hensgen answers, it’s usually an automated ...

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. - Constant robocalls can be a pest for many of us. Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring has been keeping track of robocalls in the Commonwealth. “There were one and a half billion ...

The nuisance affects millions of Americans each year. Lawmakers are looking to work with the tech industry to stop a nuisance for millions of Americans: robocalls. Robocalls, automated calls that use ...

Unwanted calls and texts are the number one complaint to the Federal Communications Commission, and North Carolina receives ...

It's almost noon and I've received four political robocalls an hour since working hours began. Why do the robots call? There appears to be a return on investment there. Don't laugh. You must be ...

The scourge of obnoxious robocalls has resumed after a brief dip during the early months of the pandemic. But a new prevention program developed by the Federal Communications Commission — which ...