America is losing the battle against robocalls

Re:America is losing the battle against robocalls by mrep on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @09:59PM (#17140403)

Well, presumably the phone companies make money from each call so I would assume they like these spam calls as it makes them money.

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Re:America is losing the battle against robocalls by bcheung on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @10:29PM (#17140544)

You pay to access the network, but once on the network it's a bit like Internet peering. You don't pay Verizon if you call a Verizon customer from your AT&T phone. I doubt cell phone companies see anything.

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Re:America is losing the battle against robocalls by Rjevski on Thursday May 24, 2018 @06:34AM (#17142685)

They do.

They get revenue from inbound calls received from other carriers. It’s peanuts per-call but when you add up all the spam calls together in a year it’s still a hefty bag of cash.

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