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States, phone companies reach deal to block robocalls

The move to crack down on spam and fraudulent calls is still voluntary and lacks a deadline.

Is there a way to stop those annoying robocalls?
Is there a way to stop those annoying robocalls?
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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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