NEW YORK, New York -- Phone companies will have greater authority to block unwanted calls from reaching customers as regulators adopted new rules to combat automated messages known as robocalls. Rules ...

Now, the bad news, according to FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, who issued a dissenting statement after the vote: The FCC decided not to prevent phone companies from issuing new consumer charges ...

after ring after ring. We're being bombarded by robocalls. Nationwide data from the call protection app YouMail shows we got 4.7 billion of them just in January. Phone companies, especially the ...

Robocalls continue to plague us, with 4.7 billion recorded in January alone, according to the call protection app YouMail.A new report from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group grades 24 phone ...