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States, phone companies reach deal to block robocalls

Is there a way to stop those annoying robocalls? Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

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Attorneys general of the 50 states plus the District of Columbia have signed a pact with the major telecom companies to trace and intercept the annoying — and fraudulent — robocalls that are a bane of our hyper-connected existence. But the source of most of those calls isn’t big telecom, some experts say.

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