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Is this generating a lot of revenue for the service providers? I think it must be or they wouldn't allow it to go on. Surely if one provider marketed themselves

by imgabe 8y ago

Is this generating a lot of revenue for the service providers? I think it must be or they wouldn't allow it to go on. Surely if one provider marketed themselves as blocking robocalls, they would get a large influx of business. IIRC one of the main selling points of gmail when it started was that it had a much better spam filter than other services at the time.

rtkwe 8y ago
Phone companies are required to connect all phone calls in the US. So they can't really do anything about it. Spam callers can go to any disreputable carrier and all other carriers have to connect their calls. There was actually a really weird phone scam going back a while that was just making calls that tried to keep people on the line as long as possible to make money off of the interconnect fees companies can charge each other. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/251 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/251 https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/104-case-phantom-caller https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/104-case-phantom-calle...