STIR/SHAKEN

The global voice ecosystem is at an inflection point. For more than a decade, the rise of robocalls, spoofing, and impersonation scams has steadily eroded consumer confidence in answering the …

Eighty-four percent of all call traffic between top U.S. telecom providers was signed and verified using STIR/SHAKEN protocols in the first half of 2025 Through a combination of policy momentum, …

Since being introduced via the TRACED Act, STIR/SHAKEN has been a key driver in the telecom industry’s fight against robocalls. The STIR/SHAKEN framework is the telecom industry’s standard call authentication …

BICS’ Head of Fraud Prevention and Security Katia Gonzalez provides an update on STIR/SHAKEN and argues that while the FCC’s initiative has made a dent in the robocalls being experienced …

Twenty twenty-two was a year of tangible improvement when it came to robocalls. There were two main factors responsible for this decrease. First, Tier-1 carriers continued to progress with their …

Fraudulent robocalls are a menace across the globe. Many of these utilize call spoofing, a practice by which voice carriers and aggregators intentionally falsify caller ID information to gain an …

Americans received 80 billion unwanted robocalls over the past 12 months. While it is difficult for consumers to wrap their heads around such a gaudy number, the reality is that …

The Federal Communications Commission continues to look for additional ways to foil scam and fraudulent robocalling operations, and it’s considering changing its rules around who has access to U.S. phone …

There are two kinds of people in the world, says Grant Castle: Those who answer a call from an unknown number, and those who assume it’s a spam call and …

Yesterday was a major deadline for implementation of anti-robocalling tools. As part of its ongoing efforts to combat scam and fraudulent robocalls, the Federal Communications Commission had established June 30 …

Robocalls blowing up your phone? Twilio’s VP of Communications Regulatory Affairs and Policy details how the TRACED Act and STIR/SHAKEN might finally put an end to that.

  The U.S. Federal TRACED Act and an order from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have mandated that service providers must implement STIR/SHAKEN call authentication by June 30, 2021. With …

T-Mobile US has launched a new, free robocall blocking service for its users. “Scam Shield” makes use of the STIR/SHAKEN framework for call authentication to help users weigh whether or …

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Robocalls are the number one complaint to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), comprising roughly 60% of all complaints to the organization.  In the past three years alone, the number of …

Mandate comes as part of implementing the TRACED Act Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has proposed mandatory implementation of the STIR/SHAKEN call authentication framework to fight unwanted robocalls, in …

More than 300 million unwanted robocalls are sent to Americans each day Despite ongoing efforts by industry and regulators to stem the flood of unwanted robocalls, a Transaction Network Services …

  Over the past several months, we’ve seen the Pallone-Thune TRACED Act, a bill to deter criminal robocall violations and make it easier for authorities to assign financial penalties, signed …

Continuing the fight against unwanted robocalls, carriers T-Mobile US and Sprint say they have implemented STIR/SHAKEN number verification across their networks. The two companies called the effort “an important step …

While 2019 was the year the telecom industry and regulators increased their actions to address illegal robocalls with default call blocking and the launch of STIR/SHAKEN, 2020 will be the …

As a bipartisan bill to combat robocalls head to President Donald Trump’s desk, the Federal Communications Commission and the Canadian Radiotelevision and Telecommunications Commission continue to pursue broader deployment of …

One of the first steps to combat unwanted spam robocalls is to authenticate the call and alert customers that an incoming call is — or isn’t — actually coming from …

As carriers move to implement a new framework to provide more information to end users on incoming calls, they are learning more about both how to deploy the STIR/SHAKEN framework …

At an FCC summit on robocalls, major service providers discussed their progress on testing and implementation of the SHAKEN/STIR specifications aimed at combatting robocalls and illegal call spoofing. The STIR/SHAKEN …