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Punish them for their complete inability to block spam calls. Million bucks per successfully connected call would fix it overnight and then our phone would be worthwhile as phones once again.
FCC recently begged congress to let them punish spam calls. It turns out that they currently have to research then forward to the justice department for it to do its own research then file an order against a specific name, then the company changes its name and throws the fine in the trash can, and the cycle repeats
Idk how we can spend billions on surveillance but can’t catch a few morons spoofing telephone numbers.
frequency of 'spam' calls should have significant gone down with the implementation of cid verification (stir/shaken). it has on all our lines; home and office--cellular and pots.
Corporate America can move mountains when fines cut into profit margins. I am not kidding when I say this would be fixed immediately.
You realize the telcos themselves know exactly where the spam calls are coming from, right? You can be damn sure that functionality was a top priority from day 1 because (just like for all subscribers) they need to know the spammers' usage in order to bill them for it.
They just don't bother passing that information along to end users or law enforcement because nobody's forcing them to.