AT&T Debuts Call Protect To Help Stop Spam Calls

Robocalls have become a "scourge" on U.S. consumers, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler said this past summer upon calling on the tech industry to help find solutions. One proposed fix, just launched by AT&T, is to provide wireless customers with automatic blocking of fraudulent calls and warnings of suspected spam calls. Rolled out yesterday, AT&T's Call Protect is just the latest effort to reduce the number of automated marketing calls that people receive on their phones. As of last month, some 2.4 billion of such calls were made in the U.S., according to the cloud-based telecom service YouMail.