GAMbIT Magazine Issue #26 April 2017 | Page 14

T- MOBILE LAUNCHES NETWORK SCAM BLOCKING T-Mobile looks to make scam calls a thing of the past with new tools I’m not a stranger to these sorts of This is the first time that something scam phone calls, writing about like this has been implemented on a them online a fair bit, but I was network wide level. The move is part surprised the way that T-Mobile of an industry-wide “Robocall Strike handled them. For a long time now Force” that the FCC set up last year I’ve been using an app that filters out to fight against these scams. The list spam calls, and it’s worked really includes such major players as well. But this move by T-Mobile is Google, Apple, Microsoft and something much bigger than that. Verizon.