Utah joins multi-state effort to crack down on illegal robocalls
Aug 8, 2025, 3:26 PM | Updated: 4:15 pm
The door to the office of Utah Attorney General Derek Brown at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Monday, June 30, 2025. Utah's attorney general is joining a bipartisan multi-state effort to crack down on illegal robocalls. (Scott G Winterton, Deseret News)
(Scott G Winterton, Deseret News)
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s attorney general is joining a bipartisan multi-state effort to crack down on illegal robocalls. In all, 51 attorneys general are tackling the issue.
According to the Utah attorney general’s office, 37 companies are not in compliance with several FCC rules, including:
- Responding to traceback requests.
- Registering in the FCC database.
- Filing their plan for reducing robocalls on their network.
The Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force has sent letters to telecom companies demanding that they stop routing illegal robocalls through their networks.
The task force was created in 2022 to “take legal action against companies responsible for significant volumes of illegal and fraudulent robocall traffic routed into and across the United States,” according to its website.
It is charged with reviewing call traffic information given to the task force by the telecom industry as well as law enforcement.
It starts with a gateway provider, a type of “translator” used by telecoms.
“Gateway providers work,” according to the the ARL Task Force website, “by allowing international calls onto the U.S. phone network. Once scam callers get on the network, they can annoy and scam people in the United States.”
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