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The difference between this and cooking/toasting bread is that your bread-making activities have no way to negatively affect someone else - we don't have an epi
by Nextgrid 4y ago
The difference between this and cooking/toasting bread is that your bread-making activities have no way to negatively affect someone else - we don't have an epidemic of spammers paying people to bake "underground bread" in their homes.
Of course, an override should be provided - the restriction should be relaxed over time once the account is established for a long time without any complaints.
- from 4y agoWhat you are describing is already done by carriers in countries with high sim box usage. (Basically, it costs ~$0.01/min to make a local call in Nigeria but $0.25/min to make an international call to Nigeria so people there set up SIM boxes and Asterisk to terminate calls locally and profit the difference between these rates. The reason it costs $0.25/min to call the official way is due to many governments taxing incoming international calls because they see it as an easy way to raise revenue at other people's expense). But anyways, because governments don't like this kind of arbitrage, they force carriers to add detection mechanisms. So they check for high ratio of outbound to incoming calls, high amount of distinct phone numbers called, 24/7 usage patterns, etc. Except Africa is still losing a few billion dollars a year to this kind of toll bypass because it is still massively profitable (see https://en.antrax.mobi/request-pricing/ https://en.antrax.mobi/request-pricing/ for example) and these changes just require them to rotate sim cards slightly more often. Essentially what I am saying is that unless you can reduce the fraudsters' margin by a substantial amount you are wasting your time.