A telecommunications company accused of facilitating thousands of robocalls to Hoosiers will pay Indiana at least $50,000 over the next few years.

State attorneys general of Arkansas, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas filed a lawsuit against two men and their companies in federal court in Texas for violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

Hoosiers reported losing more than $16 million from robocall scams last year. Federal and state authorities across the country announced Tuesday a crackdown on the illegal calls.

The Attorney General's Office received more than 15,000 complaints about unwanted calls in 2016, many of them robocalls.

Judge says the law doesn't violate freedom of speech because the ban doesn't single-out political calls and that the government has a compelling interest to protect Hoosiers' privacy.

Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller is urging Indiana members of Congress to work to restore a longstanding prohibition on student loan debt collectors from using robocalls to cellphones.

Attorney General Greg Zoeller is encouraging Indiana residents who are still receiving unwanted calls on their cell phones to look at a new call-blocking reference sheet provided by his office.