LUCIDTECH

20 years of consulting

within the IT and telecom industries.

• Expert at finding new market opportunities for existing company assets + creating product solutions to address complex market needs
• Heavily networked 
• RFP creation assistance, response assistance, and response gap analyses
• Influencing public policy on key issues including drafting of FCC responses
• Deep knowledge about current robocall mitigation landscape including products, policy, call origination issues, STIR/SHAKEN
• Cloud-based development
• Database and warehouse technology

Jul 19-23, 2021 -  Deirdre Menard will be attending SIP Forum's STIR/SHAKEN virtual summit.
https://www.sipforum.org/2021-stir-shaken-virtual-summit/

Feb 18, 2020 - Our CEO, Deirdre Menard, will be a speaker at the 48th M3AAWG General Meeting in San Francisco.
https://www.m3aawg.org/upcoming-meetings

Feb 4, 2020 - FCC sends letters to 7 voice service gateway providers raising concerns about their involvement in placing suspected illegal traffic onto the US PSTN.

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-enforcement-bureau-writes-gateway-providers-robocall-traceback

Jan 30, 2020 - FTC sends letters to 19 VoIP providers to warn them against assisting robocallers:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ftc-warns-phone-companies-against-assisting-robocalls-11580400000

Jan 28, 2020 - DOJ files civil actions for restraining orders against various companies facilitating robocalls

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-files-actions-stop-telecom-carriers-who-facilitated-hundreds-millions

Dec 30, 2019 - TRACED Act was signed into law today.

https://www.consumerreports.org/robocalls/how-traced-act-robocall-law-will-protect-consumers/

Dec 3, 2019 - Our CEO, Deirdre Menard, was quoted in Yahoo Finance with respect to the TRACED Act:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/a-new-bill-fighting-robocalls-will-have-consequences-for-companies-like-uber-145501097.html

Dec 1, 2019 - Deirdre Menard of LucidTech will attend SIPNOC 2019 from December 3-5, 2019, to discuss STIR/SHAKEN and robocalls.

June 11, 2019 - Deirdre Menard of LucidTech will be attending the USTelecom Forum: Turning the Tide on Illegal Robocalls https://www.ustelecom.org/event/ustelecom-forum-turning-the-tide-on-illegal-robocalls/

April 24, 2019 - Deirdre Menard of LucidTech will be a panelist at the FCBA's "The TCPA and Robocalls: Recent Developments and the Road Ahead" http://www.fcba.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/FINAL-April-2019-Newsletter.pdf

Jan 10, 2019 - T-Mobile begins verifying calls to protect against spam https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/10/18177008/tmobile-call-verification-spam-shaken-stir-note-9

Dec 12, 2018 - Today, the FCC voted to approve the creation of a reassigned telephone number database. https://telecomreseller.com/2018/12/12/fcc-establishes-reassigned-phone-numbers-database-to-help-reduce-unwanted-calls-to-consumers/

Nov 29, 2018 - Deirdre Menard of LucidTech will join leading network operators and industry stakeholders  across the telecom industry during SIPNOC 2018 from December  4-6, 2018, to discuss mitigation of fraudulent and illegal #robocalls, Caller ID spoofing, and #STIRSHAKEN.

Aug 23, 2018 - Our CEO, Deirdre Menard, was recently quoted in FierceWireless: https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/tns-uses-big-data-machine-learning-to-foil-robocalls

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Nov 5, 2018 - FCC Chairman Pai sends letters to ATT, Bandwidth, CenturyLink, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Frontier, Google, Sprint, TDS, T-Mobile, US Cellular, Verizon, Vonage demanding they launch STIR/SHAKEN no later than 2019. (But does this put the burden on the wrong parties?)

https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/06/fcc-caller-id-authentication-2019/ 

Oct 27, 2018 - Wells Fargo hit with lawsuit over robocalls to wrong numbers https://www.kitv.com/story/39371386/wells-fargo-hit-with-lawsuit-over-robocalls-to-wrong-numbers

Oct 10, 2018 - Robocallers evolved to sidestep new call blocking rules, AGs tell FCC - Thirty-five states urge FCC to let carriers block "neighbor spoofing" calls.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/10/robocallers-evolved-to-sidestep-new-call-blocking-rules-ags-tell-fcc/

Oct 9, 2018 - Google’s New Pixel 3 Phone Can Fight Robocalls With Roboreplies https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/pixel-phones-will-have-an-ai-assistant-that-can-handle-robocalls-for-you.html

Feb 11, 2018 - Deirdre Menard a NARUC panelist discussing 'Authenticated Caller ID, Call Blocking & Data Analytics: How to Shut Down Illegal Caller ID Spoofing & Fraud'

https://www.naruc.org/winter-policy-summit/2018/agenda/staff-subcommittee-on-telecommunications/ 

If you have yet to watch Adrian Abramovich's April 18, 2018 testimony before the Senate, it can be found here. Well worth the watch. Adrian Abramovich and his company were responsible for roughly 100M robocalls over a 3 month period. Abusive Robocalls and How We Can Stop Them