Major UK Phone Providers Agree to Crackdown on Scam Calls and Fraud

Major UK phone providers agree to crackdown on scam calls and fraud

They will block foreign call centres from spoofing UK numbers within the next year The post Major UK phone providers agree to crackdown on scam calls and fraud appeared first on Gedling Eye.

Major UK Phone Providers Agree to Crackdown on Scam Calls and Fraud

A new landmark Telecommunications Charter has today been agreed between several of the UK’s leading broadband, mobile and phone providers, which commits BT (EE), Virgin Media (O2), VodafoneThree, Tesco Mobile, TalkTalk, Sky (Sky Broadband) and the Comms Council UK to a “crack down on scam calls and fraud“. A sub-charter also exists for B2B phone services. Just to recap. Most of the United Kingdom’s major telecoms providers have already implement…