Ask HN: How can I stop receiving spam phone calls?

Re:Ask HN: How can I stop receiving spam phone calls? by tom_mellior on Saturday March 10, 2018 @03:29AM (#16557696)

> At a minimum, one could switch cell phone billing so that only the caller pays, not the recipient.

Are there any countries besides the US that charge the callee? It's completely unheard of in Europe.

I did spend some time in the US about ten years ago, and I do remember being very surprised at being charged for calls received, and even for texts received, although you have no influence on accepting them! Such a weird system.

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Re:Ask HN: How can I stop receiving spam phone calls? by mac01021 on Saturday March 10, 2018 @08:32PM (#16561194)

What if you use your mobile phone to receive a million texts per day and the sender uses a different service provider. Your service provider has to pay for all that data moving through its network one way or another...

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Re:Ask HN: How can I stop receiving spam phone calls? by tom_mellior on Sunday March 11, 2018 @11:37AM (#16563350)

I don't know exactly how inter-provider billing works, but I assume the sender's network pays the receiving network. The sender caused the traffic, why would anyone else pay for it?

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