by Tahir Almas | Aug 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
Here is the short version: a student loan servicer has agreed to pay three million dollars because its prerecorded calls reached people who never consented to anything. No bad list was purchased and nothing was hacked. The numbers were valid when consent was...
by Tahir Almas | Jul 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
Branded calling has entered public beta in Canada, Germany and the UK, and the vendor released Q1 2026 numbers alongside it: an 80.6 percent average answer rate for calls carrying a branded display name against 65.2 percent for unbranded ones. If you run auto dialer...
by Tahir Almas | Jul 24, 2026 | Uncategorized
A quiet piece of FCC housekeeping this year deserves more attention than it got. The agency’s revoke-all consent rule, in force since April 2025, says that when a contact revokes consent in any reasonable way, that revocation applies broadly, across your...
by Tahir Almas | Jul 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
In 2026 the TCPA rules for auto dialers got stricter in three big ways: consent now has to be specific to your business, so a blanket opt-in from a shared lead form no longer counts, DNC scrubbing and real-time revocation are non-negotiable, and any call that plays an...
by Tahir Almas | Jul 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
If your open-source auto dialer keeps showing up as ‘Spam Likely’ even on clean, consented calls, the culprit is usually attestation. STIR/SHAKEN signs each call A, B, or C, and calls routed through smaller carriers tend to get B or C. That lower grade...
by Tahir Almas | Jun 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
Quick answer: In 2026 your answer rate depends far more on how carriers see your number than on the dialer itself. Authenticated and branded calls get answered around 62 percent of the time, while unbranded calls sit near 20 percent, and numbers tagged “Spam...
