The FCC needs to pass a rule that bans American phone companies from peering with VIOP providers who don't verify the identity and location of subscribers. That's how both swatting and spam calls are flooding the American phone system with bogus calls. SHAKEN/STIR was supposed to cut down on unverified callers but its barely made a dent as far as I can tell.
100% agree, telephone calls should never be able to spoof or conceal themselves at all. it would make all this SWATting and spam calls disappear almost completely.
some of the guys who have done SWATting in the past have been caught, though.
It also occurred to me that foreign companies should be banned from being allocated U.S. phone numbers. There's no legitimate reason that an Indian VOIP company, for example, should be allocated blocks of U.S. phone numbers.
The FCC needs to pass a rule that bans American phone companies from peering with VIOP providers who don't verify the identity and location of subscribers. That's how both swatting and spam calls are flooding the American phone system with bogus calls. SHAKEN/STIR was supposed to cut down on unverified callers but its barely made a dent as far as I can tell.
100% agree, telephone calls should never be able to spoof or conceal themselves at all. it would make all this SWATting and spam calls disappear almost completely.
some of the guys who have done SWATting in the past have been caught, though.
It also occurred to me that foreign companies should be banned from being allocated U.S. phone numbers. There's no legitimate reason that an Indian VOIP company, for example, should be allocated blocks of U.S. phone numbers.
yeah, I didn't even think this was possible.