A Plea for Progress, Not Patchwork
Rather than doubling down on obsolescence, USTelecom urges the FCC to encourage providers to retire outdated TDM systems and embrace IP migration. This, it says, is the only scalable, secure path to meaningful robocall prevention.
“Even if the FCC’s options were viable — and they are not — they would compel providers to invest substantially in infrastructure that is vanishing,” the group warned. “A mandate to prop up obsolete services stands in direct contradiction to the commission’s forward-looking agenda.”
Silence from the FCC
The FCC has yet to respond to USTelecom’s filing, and did not immediately comment when reached by Law360 on Friday.
As robocalls continue to plague American phones with everything from bogus sweepstakes to cryptocurrency scams, the debate over how to fix the system grows more urgent—and contentious. With billions of calls placed monthly, the stakes couldn’t be higher: will the FCC’s cure be worse than the disease?
