Today, the FCC is set to meet and, presumably, to approve a Second Report and Order creating a database of re-assigned numbers. The report and order is available here.
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The database is being created to help callers avoid calling wrong numbers. When a phone number is reassigned currently there is no way for a caller to know that–unless the consumer informs the caller their phone number has changed hands, which they rarely do. So there have been a bunch of unwanted “robocalls” sent to the new owner of someone else’s phone number lately. (You may have noticed.)
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