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I never, ever get legitimate calls from overseas. Just turn those calls off for my phone. Well, perhaps callbacks from helpdesks located in other countries, in
by kabdib 4y ago
I never, ever get legitimate calls from overseas. Just turn those calls off for my phone.
Well, perhaps callbacks from helpdesks located in other countries, in which case give me time-boxed control over foreign calls, and perhaps a passcode that I can communicate along with my callback number.
There are billions of dollars at stake, of course. This is a solvable problem, and the FCC doesn't even need to get involved. The carriers care more about the money than their customers (so what else is new?)
- bluGill 4y agoThe problem is someone from overseas can claim to be from a US number. The number you see on your phone can be anything the caller wants it to be. A fair number of robocalls are from overseas but looks to you like they come from your country.
- kabdib 4y agoThat's precisely what the carriers need to solve. They're not interested.
- cuteboy19 4y agoCan't all of this be done locally on the phone? Why does the phone app not have an option to simply ignore all garbage calls
- MiddleEndian 4y agoThe phone company doesn't give you the originator information. This is what they need to be forced to do. Then users could block calls and texts from international numbers to politicians to voips to anything from the state of Wisconsin, adblock-style.
- MichaelCollins 4y agoI want the ability to block all overseas calls, and I want that ability in a way that is easy enough to opt into that most people choose to. This would resolve the overseas helpdesk problem by forcing domestic companies to use domestic call centers to succeed in reaching people. I have never received a legitimate phonecall from overseas, and I don't expect I ever will. In every case that I've had a legitimate reason to talk to somebody overseas, we used voip-to-voip, never telephones.