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Mass. Regulator Supports Reassigned Number Database

The FCC should make a database of reassigned phone numbers to curb unwanted robocalls, the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Cable commented, posted Friday at the FCC in docket 17-59. “Creating and maintaining such a database should impose only a…

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minimal cost on voice service providers and should be readily available to callers making legitimate robocalls.” To minimize exposure of personal information, the database should include only disconnection information, including the phone number, deactivation date and the reporting phone provider, the department said. It should cover all technologies of voice providers because unwanted calls are made to phone numbers “regardless of service type,” it said. The FCC should regularly monitor the database’s operations and ensure compliance, it said. Consumer groups back a reassigned number database (see 1805300032).