The CRTC has extended the deadline for carriers to implement STIR/SHAKEN know-how by 9 month to June 30th, 2021.
The know-how is supposed to fight spam and robocalls carried out over Voice-over-Web-Protocol (VoIP). It would additionally assist cope with calls that come from IP-based companies like WhatsApp.
Carriers beforehand had a deadline of September 30th of this 12 months to implement the know-how. Rogers had submitted a request to the CRTC asking for an extension of the deadline.
Rogers outlined that it was requesting the extension as a result of the truth that some technological requirements referring to STIR/SHAKEN will not be but totally outlined.
It additionally famous that it wanted to renegotiate contracts with distributors and contractors to reacquire monetary capital for the implementation after the disruption brought on by the COVID-19 disaster.
Additional, Vidéotron and Shaw Communications additionally filed letters supporting Rogers’ request for an extension for a similar causes.
The CRTC beforehand outlined that STIR/SHAKEN will “allow suppliers to certify whether or not a caller’s id might be trusted by authenticating and verifying the caller ID data for Web Protocol-based voice calls.”
