> By default, we bill by the minute, not the second, to deter short duration calls and impair the economics of robocalls.
Do they really expect us to believe the reason they bill by the minute is to fight against robocalls?
Eliminating Robocalls
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
T-Mobile offers it for free: https://www.t-mobile.com/resources/call-protection Verizon Wireless offers it for $2.99 a line: https://www.verizonwireless.com/support/call-filter-faqs/ Not sure about the other major carriers.
I am on T-Mobile. There was a point when most of the spam to my phone was from Scam Likely. Then the robocallers learned that this is the truth, and I get spam about my credit card and something in Chinese that isn't so flagged.
I haven't gotten a single spam call since enabling the blocking.
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#143https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACbgAD1oehQ
> FCC Chairman Ajit Pai explains the importance of the FCC's proposed new rules banning illegal spoofed text messages and international calls. The proposed rules would enable the agency to address consumer concerns about unwanted text messages and scam calls from overseas.
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#144I have had a Google Voice number since it was Grand Central. It has gone on all of my business cards. It's at the bottom of every email. I put it on my website. Google does an amazing, world class, mind blowing, job of filtering out robo calls. I get maybe one a week at most. I get more calls direct to my cell number from random call bots that hit every number with mobile carriers than I do through my Google Voice nu…
> It's past time for Apple to integrate spam call filtering into iOS Yes! I have 2 dozen numbers "blocked" on my iPhone but the robocalls keep coming. I wish there was a "Report Spam" (Gmail) equivalent on iOS that employed smarter rules so I didn't have to manually blocking one number at a time (that's likely a throwaway account anyway).
Rather than "report spam," a whitelist would be the best solution.
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#145I read a lot about the plague that robocalls are on international forums, especially from the U.S. But I live in central Europe, Austria, and received only two SPAM calls in my whole life, both by what seemed to be actual human agents on the other side and hear from similar amounts from friends I've asked about the phenomena. Can someone explain why it seems such hard to resolve problem elsewhere while it seems hardl…
Apparently in Europe you're the customer. However on this side of the Atlantic we're the product. Big difference.
It's like sitting down at a poker game and looking around the table. If you can't spot the mark, well you're the s/mark/product/g.
When I was young I would hear the saying: "The value of a business is directly related to the goodwill associated with it." I haven't heard that in a long time. But I have heard: "We don't care, we don't have to."
Proof's in the pudding: just as with universal healthcare we can't seem to get it together. All(most?) of Europe and Canada and Russia and Israel manage to pull it off. Too bad for US.
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#146I read a lot about the plague that robocalls are on international forums, especially from the U.S. But I live in central Europe, Austria, and received only two SPAM calls in my whole life, both by what seemed to be actual human agents on the other side and hear from similar amounts from friends I've asked about the phenomena. Can someone explain why it seems such hard to resolve problem elsewhere while it seems hardl…
The difference is regulation. The US is firmly gripped by the belief that "regulation doesn't work", and keeps electing people who try to prove that true via incompetence, cronyism and ideological malice.
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#148I've actually blocked all telephone calls. This might be ill-advised, but I haven't been burned by it yet.
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#149All I really want to do is allow calls through to my phone that are stored in my contacts. If they're not in my contacts, I'd prefer not to be notified and have it sent to voicemail.
there are Android apps that can do that.
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#150I wonder what % of robocalls are run on Twilio. My sense is a non-insignificant #