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FCC Chairman Warns of 'Regulatory Intervention' as He Criticizes Carriers' Anti-Robocall Plans (thehill.com)
The Federal Communications Commission will consider "regulatory intervention" if the major telecommunications carriers don't set up a system this year to stop spoofed robocalls, FCC chairman Ajit Pai said Wednesday. "It's time for carriers to implement robust caller ID authentication," Pai said in a statement, noting that some companies have already committed to carrying out protocols, known as the SHAKEN/STIR framework, in 2019. A report adds: Pai sent letters to major wireless carriers in November demanding that they adopt industry-wide frameworks to crackdown on the practice of "spoofing," where robocallers mask a call's origin with a fraudulent number on their caller ID. On Wednesday, the FCC chair followed up with another demand that they implement caller authentication systems this year and a threat over the repercussions if they don't comply. You can read responses from carriers FCC's website.
Mostly because businesses now run a VOIP system that translates a bunch of machines into a business account and they need to be able to set their public caller ID as their main business number that can direct your call to who you need and not some random VOIP address of X person trying to call you which might not even be a valid number at all, or just a number of that specific caller in Y department.
The issue has been already solved but in a different format: domain registrars for web addresses with SSL certificates, so a system like that but for phone numbers would be a good start perhaps?