Today, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai proposed new rules that would require phone companies to adopt the STIR/SHAKEN protocol, an ...

Your phone displays "No Caller ID" whenever the caller has chosen to hide their phone number from your screen. This differs from "Unknown Caller" or "Private Number," which typically point to ...

Although the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has effectively banned number spoofing from robocalls, that only prevents someone from making up a fake caller ID to try to trick you into ...

Seeing “Unknown Caller” appear when your phone rings can be a bit unsettling. Most of us are never quite sure whether to take a chance and answer these calls or send them off to our voicemail. After ...

Robocalls are annoying — and constant. Irvine-based YouMail estimates U.S. phones received about 147 million robocalls every day last month. San Francisco Bay Area phones rang about 81 million times ...

Caller ID is standard now, but it wasn't always. When widespread adoption started in the 1990s, it was controversial to the point that it was widely viewed as an invasion of privacy. For people with ...

In today's digital age, businesses still often rely heavily on phone calls as a means of customer communication. However, with the rise of phone scams and robocalls, it can be difficult for consumers ...

Scam and spam calls are getting more common. And they’re hard not to answer because the number comes up as “unknown.” When there’s no caller ID number, you can’t be sure if it’s a spam caller or an ...

One of the ways to prevent anyone from tagging your calls as scam or potential fraud is to show your caller identification or Caller ID on your outgoing calls. With your caller ID, your family, ...

Scam and spam calls are getting more common. And they’re hard not to answer because the number comes up as “unknown.” When there’s no caller ID number, you can’t be sure if it’s a spam caller or an ...