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AT&T CEO Says He Can't Deploy Robocall Blockers Without FCC Approval. He's Wrong (2016)
On his personal phone line, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson blocks unwanted, pre-recorded and auto-dialed robocalls. So why is Darth Randy not making this technology available for all of his customers? He claims it’s because he needs the FCC’s permission to do so, but the FCC says that just isn’t so....
From The Consumerist, former website of Consumer's Union.
There's are reasons AT&T are on my permablacklist, and this article (along with a slew of others at the Dallas Morning News) is several of them. AT&T, and other major telcos, are fatally conflicted over telephone solicitations, in all their forms: unsolicited phone calls, robocalls, spam, and scams. They've dragged their feet for decades whilst their subscribers lose billions of dollars to at best useless and unecessary goods and services, and at worst, fraud and scams.
#DaveLieber of DMN ran a series of articles on this as well, I recommend:
"Watchdog Memo to AT&T's CEO: Didn't mean to get you in trouble" https://www.dallasnews.com/news/watchdog/2016/07/08/watchdog-memo-to-atts-ceo-didnt-mean-to-get-you-in-trouble/
And:
"Watchdog: AT&T's CEO gets new job, Frontier employees dance during disaster" https://www.dallasnews.com/news/watchdog/2016/08/04/watchdog-atts-ceo-gets-new-job-frontier-employees-dance-during-disaster
At #Techdirt: "AT&T Falsely Blames The FCC For Company's Failure To Block Annoying Robocalls " https://www.techdirt.com/2016/06/02/att-falsely-blames-fcc-companys-failure-to-block-annoying-robocalls/
The FCC announcement, voted on June 18, 2015: "Fact Sheet: Wheeler Proposal to Protect and Empower Consumers
Against Unwanted Robocalls, Texts to Wireless Phones" https://web.archive.org/web/20150910081851/https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-333676A1.pdf (PDF) -
AT&T CEO retiring as telco plans for three years of cost cuts and layoffs - Enlarge / AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson speaking at an investor event at Warner Bros. Studios on ... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1670864 #randallstephenson #johnstankey #biz&it #att
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Randall Stephenson to step down as AT&T chief, succeeded by COO John Stankey - A big changing of the guard is underway at one of the world’s biggest and iconic names in telecoms a... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/DXbwCucpGUw/ #randallstephenson #johnstankey #personnel #at&t #tc