Pai, CRTC Chair Share First Official Call Using Anti-Spoofing Technology

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and his Canadian counterpart, Ian Scott, chair of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, completed their first official cross-border call using new authentication technology for combating illegal caller ID spoofing, said the FCC Monday. “Spoofed, scam robocalls are an international problem,” said Pai and Scott. Americans and Canadians “are being bombarded by these calls, which are too often used to defraud consumers and target some of our most vulnerable communities.” The FCC and CRTC “are committed to combating robocalls by aggressively attacking the use of caller ID spoofing.”