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Verizon Urges FCC to Extend Until Dec. 31 Foreign Robocall Rules

Verizon asked the FCC to extend until Dec. 31 the deadline for providers to implement do-not-originate blocking and Stir/Shaken signatures to unsigned calls from foreign service providers, in a letter posted Thursday in docket 17-59. The carrier filed a petition…

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in December seeking the extension, noting there are "special circumstances confirming the appropriateness of extending the compliance deadline (see 2302020073). Verizon said it found after a "recent week-long study" that "not a single call traversing the legacy gateway infrastructure carried a 'calling party' number on the Industry Traceback Group’s DNO list" and "virtually no illegal robocalls traverse this legacy infrastructure."