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What about an out of band verification by the carriers? Basically a large registry. When I call someone I tell t-mobile who I'm calling, and they register it.
by JamesBarney 8y ago
What about an out of band verification by the carriers?
Basically a large registry. When I call someone I tell t-mobile who I'm calling, and they register it. Then on the receiving end Verizon checks with T-mobile or a central registry, and says yep James's number is calling this number. Then it marks it as a verified call.
- gerdesj 8y agoBear in mind that it is not in a carrier's (financial) interest to drop a call. Carriers are not required to verify CLID either. There are lots of good things that telephony could be required to do but they are not and they wont.
- Splines 8y agoiOS/Android could do something like this. You register your number with Apple/Google and link your account with them. When you call someone you set a field on your account that you're calling someone. When the person who you're dialing gets rung, their dialer can look up Apple/Google and see if that number was indeed calling them, and add a "verified" checkmark to the call. This leads down a privacy/metadata rabbit hole, but there are probably ways to make this a lot better. In any case, the phone OS can do some out-of-band signaling and just avoid dealing with the carriers altogether. Although if you're doing all that then why not just make a call using voip...