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Just a guess, but I would expect carriers to be strongly against any feature that made it easy to block most calls.

• jonwachob91 8y ago
  Carriers no longer get paid per call, so you'd think they'd be incentivized to lower the load on their network by reducing the number of spam calls.
  • pxeboot 8y ago
    At least in the US, the carrier initiating the call still pays the receiving carrier. This is less then 1¢/minute in most cases, but still represents real money when multipled by millions of calls a day. Users just pay for 'Unlimited Calling' now, but all the legacy payment structures still exist on the back end.
  • vortico 8y ago
    But with less usage, their service is valued less by the customer, which would cause more unsubscribes/downgrades in service.
  • nikanj 8y ago
    The more people block most calls, the less useful the ability to make calls is. And making calls is rather important for telcos.