FCC Details Consumer Tools to Block Unwanted Robocalls

Call-blocking tools for unwanted robocalls are effective and available to consumers at little to no cost, the Federal Communications Commissions said in a report Thursday.

Billions of unwanted robocalls are blocked yearly at almost no cost to consumers, the commission said in its report. Labeling is another tool that lets consumers choose which calls to answer by identifying them as “spam” or “scam likely,” the report said.

The report is the commission’s latest effort to protect American consumers from unwanted and possibly illegal robocalls. The report follows the FCC’s 2019 Call Blocking Declaratory Ruling, which allowed voice service providers ...