T-Mobile and AT&T are actually working together to stop robocalls

[Jacob Siegal]

The scourge of robocalls and spoofed numbers is bad as now as it's ever been, but in recent weeks, the government and the private sector have both been taking the issue more seriously. In fact, US mobile carriers T-Mobile and AT&T revealed on Wednesday that they are teaming up to bring call cross-network call authentication protections to their subscribers. That's right -- two of the industry's biggest rivals are working together to help you.

T-Mobile and AT&T will take advantage of the SHAKEN/STIR caller authentication technology to ensure that anyone who receives a call on either of their networks or between their networks knows when the call is legitimate and when it's spam. SHAKEN/STIR will verify a call is from the number that appears on your caller ID.

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