The old Bell companies are largely already in compliance with SHAKEN/STIR. It is mostly smaller shady companies that are not, because they know their customers don't want them to comply.

Time to make SHAKEN/STIR a requirement to participate in the phone network.

Where is all the money going? You're saying we cant get some billions from 36 Trillion dollars? WTH

It's privately-owned infrastructure, for the most part. And if the companies could, they'd charge you simply for the privilege of existing in the same universe as the infrastructure even if no one ever used it, and just send that money to their shareholders.

> And if the companies could, they'd charge you simply for the privilege of existing in the same universe as the infrastructure even if no one ever used it, and just send that money to their shareholders.

Of course. If I could I'd draw a salary from every employer on the planet. People be peoplin'.

Maybe things like starlink will end up finally seeing some change. Would be a lot easier with some fiber !

It's going to the FCC, of course. If they ever solved robocalls, what would be there for them to do? Literally, this agency has been trying to solve spam calls for half a century now. They are the most incompetent people in history.

That's not the priority. The priority is tax cuts for the rich. I know it sounds snarky, but I don't see how, since I've said the actual truth (TM).

The robocalls are already using the automated software-based infrastructure, not the old copper lines with analog calls.

Better to abandon that technology all together (for normal phone calls). It should be used exclusively for emergency calls and similarly vital functions. Let everything else operate over cell networks and require explicit opt-ins before party A can call party B.

A man can dream.

Why not? Things have to eventually be replaced or upgraded.

for landlines, do you mean?

No, it's not a one or the other thing. Phone calls don't work like web apps. Hell, most land lines aren't actually copper either , they're essentially VoIP. A phone call is not just a socket connection. Look up SS7 and PSTN. It's quite literally impossible to change any of this stuff, it's far too embedded.

Not even sure what you're referring to. Do you think the tone from pressing buttons on your landline is still analog signaling? It is not.