. >> ctia says its united in its efforts to defeat robocalls, these efforts stop a million every year. >> everybody has to get out of the habit of picking up the phone and answering if it's not a number you don't know. >> when you get robocalls, write down the numbers and share them with the ftc, complaints do not call .gov, they pass them to u mail so they will can block the calls for you. >> are you taking a risk every time you answer an unknown call you'll get more calls down the road she's testified before congress on behalf of consumers fighting against the robocalls. thanks for being here today. >> you're welcome. >> why are there so many more of these robocalls out there? this is a constant daily annoyance at my house too. >> people are making money by making the robocalls and as long as that's the case, the robocalls will continue to be made. >> sometimes the gentlemen said in the package, you don't recognize the number but it's coming from the town next to you. if i hear the delay before things start, should i hang it up anything i can do at that point? >> if a live person co

. >> ctia, the wireless carrier's trade group says it's united in its effort to defeat robocalls. these efforts stop more than a million robocalls every day. >> everybody has to get out of the habit of picking up the phone if it's not a number you don't know. >> reporter: when you get robocalls write down the numbers and share the numbers with the ftc. they will pass them along to apps like umail. >> margo saunders, senior counsel with the national consumer law center feoffed before congress on behalf of consumers fighting against those robocalls. thanks for being here today. >> you're welcome. >> why are there so many of these robocalls out there? this is a constant daily announ annoyance at my house, too. >> because people are making >> when i pick up the calls, sometimes you see calls, you don't recognize the number but you know it's coming from the town next to you. that's what it's felling you on the caller id. if i pick it up and hear the delay before things start, should i just hang it up? is there anything i can do at that point? >> if a live person comes on, you can say t

she joined ctia as its president and ceo in june 2014. she previously served in the bush administration as the acting assistant secretary of commerce for communications and information, as well as the acting administrator of ntia, the national telecommunications and information administration. now, while at ntia, she did a lot of important things, of course. but one thing that meredith did that now perhaps may be forgotten, but it's very important, she really is the person that facilitated and led the transition at that period to the digital television format. and, you know, it was so easy going that it -- that, you know, it made it seem as if it might not have been as difficult and as much work as went into it as did. but that was very important. of course, there were a lot of people that preceding meredith to make that happen, but i always recall that because it was very important at the time. the other thing i'll say about meredith that i always like to point out in case she forgets is that she, upon becoming a commissioner, gave her m

president ctia as its in june of 2014. she previously served in the as theministration, acting assistant secretary of commerce for communication's as information -- communications and information. while at ntia, she did a lot of important things. one thing meredith did that may be forgotten, but it is very important, she really is the person that facilitated and led the transition at that period to the digital television format. it made itasy going, seem as if it might not have been as difficult and as much work as wedded to it. there were a lot of people that preceded meredith to make that happen. i will always recall that because it was very important at the time. the other thing i will say about meredith that i always like to point out, in case she forgets, she upon becoming a commissioner gave her maiden address at a free state foundation conference, which was nice enough. she had to come back from south america and goes straight -- she came straight from the airport into another room here at the press club to deliver