CCA Gets Tough on Robocalls

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The Competitive Carriers Association (CCA) yesterday announced a technology and marketing engagement program with NetNumber to provide a complete solution for CCA carrier members to cost-effectively mitigate unwanted robocalls. NetNumber’s Guaranteed Caller Service Provider (GCSP) solution delivers a complete solution for the signing and verification of known trusted calls, allowing CCA members to ensure that the calls of their legitimate subscribers travel inside the STIR/SHAKEN trusted network.

Through this program, CCA carrier members have an opportunity to deploy GCSP and meet the FCCs deadline. In addition, GCSP provides both SIP and TDM/SS7 support including the TDM-enabling Call Placement Service (CPS), which is included with each Guaranteed Caller™ solution sold. This means that service providers that deploy GCSP to meet the FCC mandate of today also have deployed a solution that will be needed for tomorrow’s inevitable regulations on TDM/SS7 STIR/SHAKEN.

“CCA is pleased to work with NetNumber to bring its Guaranteed Caller platform for STIR/SHAKEN to CCA’s carrier members,” said CCA President/CEO Steve Berry. “The goal is to help smaller carriers provide cost-effective solutions that protect subscribers from illegal robocalling. We are delighted to work with NetNumber to see that all CCA carrier members can launch a solution.”

American consumers receive over 200K unwanted and/or fraudulent calls every minute, many using spoofed caller IDs to increase the likelihood that the called party will answer the call. To combat this growing problem, the FCC has mandated service provider implementation of the STIR/SHAKEN set of standards as a solution to the widespread use of CLI spoofing in fraudulent calls. Service Providers operating IP-based voice services must implement STIR/SHAKEN in their networks by June 30, 2021.

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