Per an FCC mandate that will go into place on June 30, every voice provider in the country (Verizon, AT&T, and Comcast, among others) will be required to implement new technology called Stir/Shaken. As CNet’s Marguerite Reardon explains, “Stir stands for “secure telephone identity revisited,” and “Shaken” for “signature-based handling of asserted information using tokens.” Stir is the technical protocol, and Shaken is the framework by which calls can be tracked in the new robocall mitigation database.”
Basically, the US has been hit by over 22 billion robocalls already this year and this technology should hopefully curb that a little bit. Even a divided nation can come together and rejoice in less robocalls for everyone.
