> The robocall crisis will never be fixed ...only if everyone resolves to restrict themselves to only using ineffective mitigation techniques. I think the rob

> The robocall crisis will never be fixed ...only if everyone resolves to restrict themselves to only using ineffective mitigation techniques. I think the robocall problem can be fixed easily. Unlike email, the telephone network has sufficient existing billing infrastructure that could be exploited to make robocalls uneconomical. Just bill everyone $0.01 (or whatever) per outgoing call after the first 1000 per account per month; and have the carriers bill each other $0.01 for each incoming call to their networks. A solution like this is necessary, especially since calls lack much of the texture required for email spam-filtering techniques.