On Fri, 18 Feb 2022, Michael Thomas wrote:
On 2/17/22 11:58 AM, Sean Donelan wrote:
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-finds-two-providers-failed-fully-implement-stirshaken-0
The Federal Communications Commission today took action to ensure that
voice service providers meet their commitments and obligations to implement
STIR/SHAKEN standards to combat spoofed robocall scams. Specifically, voice
service providers Bandwidth and Vonage lost a partial exemption from
STIR/SHAKEN because they failed to meet STIR/SHAKEN implementation
commitments and have been referred to the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau for
further investigation.
So for probably a year or so before the Stir/Shaken mandate came, I have been
seeing a lot less phone spam. I don't know if that's typical but it was quite
noticeable for me. What that tells me is that providers likely started
clamping down on their shady customers well ahead of the mandate which says
that regulatory fiat would have been sufficient too. But that hinges on
whether my situation is typical though.
Reading the actual FCC order, Bandwidth HAS implemented STIR/SHAKEN
everywhere EXCEPT on some legacy hardware that does not support adding the
headers.
While Bandwidth should have either replaced the hardware or updated the
software to support it by now, they did not, and they got slapped for it.
It may be that the customers connected to that hardware are being
difficult, or that, as a CLEC, they have a crap-ton of older hardware in
different physical switch locations that they couldn't or just didn't get
to upgrading or replacing.
I asked Bandwidth for details, nothing yet.
Beckman
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