I loathe Ajit Pai as much as anyone but the FCC and Telcos have been fairly swift (by the glacial standards of telecom standards) in coming up with a fix for fo

I loathe Ajit Pai as much as anyone but the FCC and Telcos have been fairly swift (by the glacial standards of telecom standards) in coming up with a fix for forged CallerID known as SHAKEN/STIR. It's still about a year from being deployed, and it's unclear how legacy landlines will be covered, given Nortel's been bankrupt for a decade and Lucent (know Nokia) has been out of the switch business for at least as long (an aunt of mine used to work on the 5ESS software until she was laid off about 15 years ago. She's now a realtor and makes far better money, so I guess nothing lost). They're doing this out of not-so-enlightened self-interest. Voice is still a huge part of telco revenue and they can see people abandoning voice outright if the last year's trend of 75+% of all calls being spam continues. Millennials have already adopted social standards of phone calls being considered intrusive and rude.