On Monday, ABA joined the National Association of Credit Unions and other trade associations to present a reply comment which reiterated its earlier request that the Federal Communications Commission require voice service providers to implement a caller ID authentication solution on non-IP networks.
Non-IP networks are believed to be a primary means by which criminals illegally “spoof” phone numbers used by banks and other legitimate callers to make outgoing calls, that is, they make the phone identifier calls from the recipient of the call display the name of a legitimate company instead of the name of the caller, which seeks to defraud the recipient.
The response follows an initial comment led by the ABA which made the same request to the FCC. In the response, the associations summarized other comments supporting their contention that the transition from non-IP to IP networks will take time and that providers should be required to implement existing call authentication solutions on non-IP networks.
