35 States Ask FCC To Allow New Technology To Block Spoofed Robocalls

(CBS Local) — If you’re sick and tired of robocalls flooding your cell phone, there may be relief on the horizon.
Attorneys general from 34 states (and the Hawaii Office of Consumer Protection) are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to create new rules that would allow telephone service providers to use new technology to detect and block illegal robocalls.
Authorities said consumers got more than 30 billion illegal robocalls in 2017 to unsuspecting consumers and that nu