Attorney General Russell Coleman sent a warning Thursday to four voice service providers that have been transmitting suspected illegal robocall traffic on their networks.
VSPs can be loosely defined as any service that is interconnected with the public switched telephone network and that furnishes voice communications to an end user.
In this case, the Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force — a collection of attorneys general across the country — has issued the notices to KWK Communications, Inbound Communications, AKA Management, and CallVox LLC. Should the providers continue to transmit robocalls and violate state and federal laws, the task force says it may pursue further legal actions against the companies and their owners.
Under current rules, voice service providers must register on the FCC’s database to operate in the United States. However, a loophole has allowed robocallers to continue accessing the U.S. telephone network.
In November alone, Kentuckians received an estimated 55.7 million robocalls of the nearly 5 billion robocalls placed nationwide, according to the AG's office.