On August 22, 2019, it was announced that 51 state attorneys
general and 12 telecommunications service providers (AT&T,
Bandwidth, CenturyLink, Charter, Comcast, Consolidated, Frontier,
Sprint, T-Mobile, US Cellular, Verizon and Windstream) have
collaborated to implement certain anti-robocalling principles intended to
protect consumers from the growing scourge of illegal robocalls. In
announcing this initiative, the state attorneys general highlighted
the fact that robocalls are generally their number one source of
consumer complaints. Working in partnership with the attorneys
general, the telecommunications service providers have agreed to
adopt eight anti-robocalling principles aimed at the prevention and
enforcement of illegal calls.
