FCC chairman Ajit Pai has laid out the commission’s agenda for the coming month, and the big item on the list is a proposal to combat robocalls.

The FCC made a major update to its robocall rules back in 2015 that allowed phone service providers to start offering blocking tools to stop subscribers from receiving spammy calls. This month’s measure would explore ways to expand what companies can do, particularly by allowing them to block certain spoofed calls and calls from numbers that don’t actually exist.

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