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Couple years ago I had to have an unpleasant discussion with the FCC. I was getting robocalls at work, I had a block of 50 numbers and I would hear them start ringing one at a time in the back of the building and work their way up front to my desk.

The FTC has set up a competition for people to submit entries on how to block illegal robocalls.


The FTC Robocall Challenge (the “Competition”) is an initiative of the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) challenging the public to create innovative solutions that will block illegal robocalls on landlines and mobile phones. The vast majority of telephone calls that deliver a prerecorded message trying to sell something to the recipient are illegal. The FTC regulates these calls under the Telemarketing Sales Rule. See 16 CFR 310.4(b)(1)(v). The Competition is intended to provide recognition to individuals, teams of individuals, for-profit legal entities, and/or non-profit organizations (collectively, “Contestants”) for developing proposed technical solutions or functional solutions and proofs of concepts that can block illegal robocalls (each a “Solution”).



http://robocall.challenge.gov/