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Permission from the carrier to dump an audio file directly into your voicemail box.

• dragonwriter 9y ago
  If that's the mechanism and this takes off, there'll be a strong incentive for one carrier to offer spam-free voice mail and either steal all the customers or cause the entire industry to fall in line.
  • jameshart 9y ago
    But the carrier who provides the service to advertisers to target messages and directly load them into subscriber inboxes can charge their subscribers lower prices because they have another customer, so your hypothetical ethical carrier will lose out to them. Hell, if they can open up the ad sales channel enough they could probably give away calling for free, just like a proper modern internet business. Does the existence of ad-funded free search engines mean the market naturally ought to produce spam-free search engines that steal all the customers?
  • delinka 9y ago
    All carriers will eventually charge customers to block this "service." Until consumer-friendly legislation bans the practice ... I'd estimate approximately two decades from the time this "service" is allowed.