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Why would there be a lag in the call? I don’t think other satellite phones have much perceivable delay. So the question is...do astronauts get 10 spam calls pe

Why would there be a lag in the call? I don’t think other satellite phones have much perceivable delay. So the question is...do astronauts get 10 spam calls per day like the rest of us?

Sharlin 8y ago
They use IP telephony, bounced through geosynchronous satellites like their other Internet traffic. So the best-case signal roundtrip is already close to 150000 km. I'm not sure whether standard satellite phones would work on the ISS. BTW, is the spamcall/robocall thing a US phenomenon? I mean, I haven't heard anyone talking about those except Americans. I only get regular human telemarketers every now and then, but I generally don't answer calls from unknown numbers anyway.
- ForHackernews 8y ago
  UK gets huge numbers of spam/scam calls: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/06/bt_call_scam/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/06/bt_call_scam/
  - weavie 8y ago
    Yeah I'm in the UK. I don't even bother answering the landline anymore.
  - opless 8y ago
    Mostly "Our records detect that you've been the victim of a no-fault car accident"
- stordoff 8y ago
  The UK gets a lot of spam calls, but most appear to be humans.