. -- i'm also pleased to be joined by patrick halley of u.s. telecom as well as representatives from a number of major telephone companies. om

patrick halley of u.s. telecom, as well as representatives from a number of major telephone companies. 12 companies have joined us today. they are at&t, bandwidth, centurylink, charter, comcast, consolidated, frontier, sprint, t-mobile, u.s. cellular, verizon, and windstream. today we are announcing major bipartisan public-private effort to stop robocalls. first, i want to introduce my colleague and fellow cochair of this initiative, new hampshire attorney general gordon macdonald. gordon: thank you, general stein, and thank you for your leadership on this issue. the essence of our role as attorneys general is to protect the public. no single issue comes close to generating the volume of consumer complaints as robocalls. for virtually all of us, the spam calls are a ubiquitous and regular annoyance. but robocalls are also a very effective device for illegal conduct conducted by financial scammers who prey particularly on the vulnerable, putting at risk their savings, their identity, their security. the memo

be here with my colleagues attorney general gordon macdonald and attorney general leslie, and patrick halley, of u.s. telecom and representatives a major telephone company spirit 12 companies have joined us today and they are at&t, bandwidth, comcast,nk, charter, consolidated, frontier, sprint, t-mobile, u.s. cellular, verizon, and windstream. today we are announcing major bipartisan public-private effort to stop robo calls. to first, i would like introduce my colleague and fellow cochair of this initiative, new hampshire attorney general gordon macdonald. stein forou general your leadership on this issue. the essence of our role as attorneys general is to protect the public. issue comes close to generating the volume of consumer complaints as robo calls. us, theually all of scam calls are ubiquitous and regular annoyance. a veryo calls are also effective device for illegal conduct conducted by financial scammers. who pray, particularly on the vulnerable, putting at risk their savings, their identity, their security. the memorandum of understanding we are announcing today will significantly

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