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Had to google STIR/SHAKEN.

> Secure Telephone Identity Revisited) and SHAKEN (which stands for Secure Handling of Asserted information using toKENs)

The amount of bending over backwards to get that acronym to check out is impressive. It is such an engineer-named system.

Looking forward to it nonetheless.

For more information including carriers' responses to FCC, including some of their plans, you can view here https://www.fcc.gov/call-authentication

supposedly the big three have implemented it but you have to have certain phone models.

T-mobile has, but its only supported on Samsung and LG phones right now: https://www.t-mobile.com/customers/mobile-security