Americans have received billions of robocalls and shelled out untold sums to scammers pretending to be IRS representatives, health-care providers, government officials and others. But so far, lawmakers have had a hard time making robocalls stop. WSJ's Spencer Macnaughton explains why. Photo: Rob Alcaraz/The Wall Street JournalPhone companies have more freedom to block robocalls after U.S. regulators moved Thursday to protect them from the legal consequences of doing so. The action from the Federal Communications Commission likely won’t completely stop the flood of calls to consumers’ phones, which the agency’s chief economist has said cost consumers at least $3 billion annually in lost time.

Source: Wall Street Journal June 06, 2019 17:03 UTC