Good afternoon. Im attorney general josh stein of north carolina. I want to thank you as we are here to make this major announcement. Im pleased to be here with my colleagues attorney general Gordon Macdonald and attorney general leslie, and patrick halley, of u. S. Telecom and representatives a major Telephone Company spirit 12 companies have joined us today and they are at t, bandwidth, comcast,nk, charter, consolidated, frontier, sprint, tmobile, u. S. Cellular, verizon, and windstream. Today we are announcing major bipartisan publicprivate effort to stop robo calls. To first, i would like introduce my colleague and fellow cochair of this initiative, New Hampshire attorney general Gordon Macdonald. Stein forou general your leadership on this issue. The essence of our role as attorneys general is to protect the public. Issue comes close to generating the volume of consumer complaints as robo calls. Us, theually all of scam calls are ubiquitous and regular annoyance. A veryo calls are
As well as representatives from a number of major Telephone Companies. 12 companies have joined us today. They are at t, bandwidth, centurylink, charter, comcast, consolidated, frontier, sprint, tmobile, u. S. Cellular, verizon, and windstream. Today we are announcing major bipartisan publicprivate effort to stop robocalls. First, i want to introduce my colleague and fellow cochair of this initiative, New Hampshire attorney general gordon macdonald. Gordon thank you, general stein, and thank you for your leadership on this issue. The essence of our role as attorneys general is to protect the public. No single issue comes close to generating the volume of consumer complaints as robocalls. For virtually all of us, the spam calls are a ubiquitous and regular annoyance. But robocalls are also a very effective device for illegal conduct conducted by financial scammers who prey particularly on the vulnerable, putting at risk their savings, their identity, their security. The memorandum of un
Today, and they are at t, bandwidth, centurylink, charter, frontier,onsolidated, cellular,mobile, u. S. Verizon, and windstream. Today we are announcing major bipartisan publicprivate effort to stop robocalls. Myst, i want to introduce colleague and fellow cochair of this initiative, New Hampshire attorney general gordon macdonald. Thank you, general stein, and thank you for your leadership on this issue. The essence of our role as attorneys general is to protect the public. No single issue comes close to generating the volume of consumer complaints as robocalls. For virtually all of us, the spam calls are a ubiquitous and regular annoyance. But robocalls are also a very effective device for illegal conduct conducted by financial particularlyprey on the vulnerable, putting at risk their savings, their identity, their security. The memorandum of understanding we are announcing today will significantly enhance our efforts as attorneys generals to. Rotect the public we serve it is a very
The Senate Commerce subcommittee on Technology Held a hearing on illegal robo calls and what the federal Communications Commission is doing to combat them. South dakota senator john thune chaired the hearing. Illegal and abusive robo calls are a clear problem. Automated calls are not inherently negative. Many Important Services are carried out by such calls and companies have a preestablished relationship. If you are on the way to the airport and your flight is canceled, if theres a fraud alert on your credit card, or if you are being reminded of a medical important, those calls are important to consumers. Our focus today is on the unscrupulous use of robo calls. Almost a year ago, when i was chairman of the Commerce Committee, i subpoenaed an operation. Hes facing fcc penalties for making robo calls throughout the country. His testimony shed light on the reality that many robo callers view getting caught and getting fines as a cost of business. Acttroduced the deterrence with senator
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