Apple Teaming With AT&T, FCC, Google To Combat Automated Phone Calls, How Much Consumers Dislike Automated Phone Calls?

After the call from the commissioner of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Apple and 32 other companies have joined a coalition on combating automated phone calls.

Headed by the Federal Communications Commission, the group of companies is called Robocall Strike Force, which held its first hearing on the subject in Washington, DC.

The government agency FCC is turning to companies like Apple, Google, AT&T and Verizon for the reason that it's on the quest for a solution to prevent telemarketers and big corporations from giving consumers a hard time with pre-recorded messages, according to The Verge.

FCC Commissioner Mignon L. Clyburn stated that they are aware that there is a problem. They know how much consumers don't like these kind of calls. Also, the government agency realized that the public is frustrated, because they were prompted that after they registered for the Do Not Call list, the issue would stop. But it did not, and now is the right time to take some real action.

Commissioner Clyburn was careful to point out in her statements that the group of companies is walking a fine line between helping consumers.

The Robocalls, which is an automated telephone call that delivers a recorded message, are certainly something nearly everyone has experienced and they are very annoying. Robocalls is the reason on both pre-recorded messages from misleading phone numbers and automated text messages.

As the FCC brings together a group of companies who are normally in deep competition against each other, this move could give pleasure and satisfaction to the consumers, Tech Aeris reported.

However, in iOS, the wide-reaching black list is not featured, where known automated telephone calls are blocked by default, based on the report of Apple Insider.

Anyway, the FCC first began addressing the robocall issue from a technical end last year, when the government agency gave phone makers and telecoms the green light to implement robocall-blocking software.

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