ETA Submits Comments to the FCC for its STIR/SHAKEN Robocall Summit

The Honorable Ajit Pai
Chairman
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street SW
Washington, DC 20554

Dear Chairman Pai:

The Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) submits these comments in response to the Federal
Communications Commission’s (FCC) summit focused on the telecommunications industry implementation of
SHAKEN/STIR – the caller ID authentication framework to combat illegal robocalls and caller ID spoofing.

ETA is the leading trade association for the payments industry, representing over 500 companies that offer
electronic transaction processing products and services; its membership spans the breadth of the payments
industry to include independent sales organizations, payments networks, financial institutions, transaction
processors, mobile payments products and services, payments technologies, equipment suppliers, and online
small business lenders.

ETA applauds and supports the FCC’s efforts to combat unwanted and illegal robocalls. Unwanted and illegal
robocalls are a nuisance, or even worse, predatory, for many consumers, and efforts to detect and eliminate
these calls are important for consumer protection. Robocalls made with the intent to defraud consumers, (e.g.
the IRS scams), damage the trusted communication channels between customers and businesses.

Read ETA’s full comments here.