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Re:FCC allows blocking traffic from robocall-friendly provid... by thanhhaimai on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @04:46PM (#36977150)
This so much. I don't remember that spam calls exist anymore until I read a post someone complaining about getting spam calls. It works so well. I haven't had a false negative in the 3 years of using it. All the people who truly wanted to contact me would say something into the assistant, and the phone rang, and I'd pick it up.
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Re:FCC allows blocking traffic from robocall-friendly provid... by onedognight on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @05:03PM (#36977400)
Apple does this as well, but this is a Band-Aid. Think of the old people who get scammed by these calls. This is a system issue and should be fixed as such. It’s frankly embarrassing how the phone companies have effectively killed the “phone call” through their neglect.
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Re:FCC allows blocking traffic from robocall-friendly provid... by Nextgrid on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @05:42PM (#36978024)
> phone companies have effectively killed the “phone call” through their neglect.

They haven't - they're still making bank on the spam traffic, which is also why they're reluctant to implement solutions despite it technically being trivial.

If phone spam was actually making a dent in revenue (aka legitimate call revenue was going down and the revenue from spam wasn't making up for it) they would've got their act together very quickly.

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Re:FCC allows blocking traffic from robocall-friendly provid... by p_j_w on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @05:15PM (#36977600)
I’ve recently gotten an iPhone (coming from a Pixel 7), and it’s honestly not in the same league for dealing with Spam calls. It’s much more of an annoyance since I switched.
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Re:FCC allows blocking traffic from robocall-friendly provid... by luma on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @05:12PM (#36977564)
Nope, not quite public yet. Google has had this for years but Apple is just now about to get it with the release of iOS 17 and "live voicemail". Still have a month or so before that's out of beta.
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