Funny, the same telecoms that whine about how hard this traffic is to stop... are also selling a "premium" service to customers- who then manually tag unwanted calls so that the telecom can sell that data back to other customers...
Funny, the same telecoms that whine about how hard this traffic is to stop... are also selling a "premium" service to customers- who then manually tag unwanted calls so that the telecom can sell that data back to other customers...
Unsurprisingly: telcos sell outbound dialing capabilities to business customers.
For spam mitigations to work, the cost of selling that business must exceed its revenue.
Some, and I won't mention AT&T by name, are very curiously opposed to any regulations touching this.
I don’t seem to be charged for Scam Shield on my account. I’ve had one unknown number call and not leave a message over the last month, which is a far cry from the 20–40 spam calls per day some people report.