On Wednesday, Nevada's Attorney General announced the expansion of a crackdown on illegal robocalls to include four more voice providers.
The expansion comes as part of an ongoing investigation by the Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force.
The task force directed Inteliquent, Bandwidth, Lumen, and Peerless, four of the largest voice providers in the country, to stop transmitting suspected illegal robocalls across their networks.
“These illegal robocalls are a frequent and exasperating nuisance to Nevadans,” said Attorney General Ford. “These companies know their responsibilities to Nevadans and have continued to ignore them. We will not let that continue — these voice providers must take the steps needed to ensure they are compliant with federal rules and to stop this deluge of robocalls.”
Ford sent warning letters to 37 smaller voice providers in August.
Those providers were allowing suspected illegal robocalls onto the U.S. telephone network.
The next phase of the operation, which kicked off on Wednesday, is targeting companies with far larger footprints in the U.S.
The four companies are continuing to transmit hundreds of thousands, and in some cases, millions, of suspected illegal robocalls.
The chart below shows the scale of the alleged illegal activity.
