Phone Companies Ink Deal With All 50 States And D.C. To Combat Robocalls

Re:Phone Companies Ink Deal With All 50 States And D.C. To C... by dgellow on Friday August 23, 2019 @11:45AM (#20778771)

Is robocalling mainly a US issue? I don't think I ever faced robocalls in Western Europe.

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Re:Phone Companies Ink Deal With All 50 States And D.C. To C... by reaperducer on Friday August 23, 2019 @11:54AM (#20778868)

Is robocalling mainly a US issue? I don't think I ever faced robocalls in Western Europe.

I've seen Europeans on HN complaining about robocalls. I'm pretty sure Germany is one of the countries that gets them.

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Re:Phone Companies Ink Deal With All 50 States And D.C. To C... by nougatbyte on Friday August 23, 2019 @01:11PM (#20779844)

We also get robocalls, had a few cases where neighbours got contacted by "Microsoft support". But one can report to the Bundesnetzagentur. Don't know how effective they are.

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Re:Phone Companies Ink Deal With All 50 States And D.C. To C... by petschge on Friday August 23, 2019 @01:32PM (#20780126)

They exist and I have got them. But the frequency is about one per year. Wheres here in the US I now get about one per day.

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Re:Phone Companies Ink Deal With All 50 States And D.C. To C... by csunbird on Friday August 23, 2019 @12:02PM (#20778951)

I've been in Germany for a while and I did not receive any yet.

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Re:Phone Companies Ink Deal With All 50 States And D.C. To C... by Scoundreller on Saturday August 24, 2019 @06:15AM (#20786326)

It’s more expensive to terminate calls to EU numbers, so profitability needs to be higher for random dialing.

Also depends on whether your EU country has a developing nation source for < 1 EUR/hr labour.

France and UK, sure. Germany and Italy, not so much.

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