When a phone rings in Tampa Bay, it's getting easier to know who's calling. GTE unveiled Monday an enhanced Caller ID service that displays not only the phone number of an incoming call, but also the ...

Robocalls are annoying — and constant. Irvine-based YouMail estimates U.S. phones received about 147 million robocalls every day last month. San Francisco Bay Area phones rang about 81 million times ...

Caller ID spoofing causes the caller ID display on a phone to display something other than the real caller. It isn't a new technology; it's been around since caller ID became popular. While the ...

Rarely a day goes by when an average mobile phone user is not fielding half a dozen spam calls. Apart from being a source of periodic irritation, these calls and SMSes can, in the worst case, lead to ...

It’s no secret that the era of the landline telephone is slowly coming to a close. As of 2020, it was estimated that less than half the homes in America still subscribed to plain old telephone service ...

They will not do anything unless you go down the whole abusive phone call process and apparently calls that just hang up on you are not abusive enough for them to care about. Telcos need to block this ...

NEW YORK — Last fall, U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy’s office started getting phone calls from constituents who complained about receiving recorded phone messages that bad-mouthed Murphy. The constituents were ...