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T-Mobile and Sprint Work Together to Protect Customers from Scam Calls
Cross-network STIR/SHAKEN rollout helps stop number-spoofing, keeping consumers safer from scammers What’s the news: T-Mobile and Sprint are delivering
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nCross-network STIR/SHAKEN rollout helps stop number-spoofing, keeping consumers safer from scammers\n\n\n\nWhat’s the news: T-Mobile and Sprint are delivering number verification to better protect customers against scams and unwanted robocalls with new cross-network protection built on STIR/SHAKEN standards.\n\n\nWhy it matters: Scams and unwanted robocalls are an industry-wide problem, and it takes wireless companies joining forces and working together to keep consumers better protected. Implementing STIR/SHAKEN standards across networks is important progress towards industry-wide call verification.\n\n\nWho it’s for: Anyone who is tired of the growing number of unwanted robocalls and scams. (Everyone.)\n\n\n\n \n\n BELLEVUE, Wash. & OVERLAND PARK, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nT-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) and Sprint (NYSE: S) today announced they’re delivering STIR/SHAKEN number-verification across networks, an important step in the industry’s ongoing fight against unwanted scam and spam calls. The new anti-robocalling feature is currently rolling out to T-Mobile and Sprint customers and will give customers peace of mind that calls from the Sprint network to the T-Mobile network (and vice versa) are really coming from the number listed on their caller ID display and are not being spoofed.\n\n\n“We’re in an arms race with these scammers, and we’ve got to join forces as an industry to keep all wireless customers protected,” said John Legere, CEO of T-Mobile. “We were first to announce readiness for STIR/SHAKEN, first to implement Caller Verified, and today we lead the industry with the most cross-network STIR/SHAKEN partnerships to keep consumers better protected. T-Mobile will keep innovating and delivering on the frontlines in the battle against unwanted calls, and we won’t stop.”\n\n\n”While all carriers compete fiercely in the marketplace, we all agree that the industry-wide plague of robocalls and scammers must be tackled arm-in-arm with other carriers as we put the latest technology to work to help protect our customers,” said Sprint CEO Michel Combes. “STIR/SHAKEN is one tool among many that Sprint is utilizing in a multi-year anti-robocalling development program to improve our customers’ experience.”\n\n\nT-Mobile was first to announce readiness for the FCC-recommended STIR/SHAKEN standards in November 2018 and first in the wire...