This won't do shit to stop robocalls. These are all coming across virtual systems from India, China, wherever.
Phone companies know where calls originate because they have to bill for termination endpoints. Allow me to block any call not from the United States and 99% of this will stop.
Follow the money. Agents get them, too, or set up sting ops. Answer, engage, get their details, and fine them to the point it's no longer profitable.
Can't you get around this with a VoIP server? FFS, you can give yourself any phone number you want.
As long as the termination point looks like it's somewhere else, probably. I assume it's going to do nothing for that very reason.
I say they'll be exempt, because of "social justice" (Indians, niggers and jews get to rip you off because bhopal or slavery or the Holocaust or whatever reason). This is meant to stop leakers, whistleblowers and people planning coordinated actions against the system. AKA jews are getting fucking scared and trying to disable everything.
This might be in response to Phreeli (phreeli.com), a new phone company that sells phone service where they keep your payment information separate from your call records. You can also pay them in cryptocurrency.
They were closing in on our identities on most large, online services. Every major online service demands a phone number now and a phone number gives them the user’s real identity. Phreeli takes that easy lookup away from them. This would force companies like Phreeli to collect that user information and hand it over.
I like the headline. It ignores the ploy and gets to the real purpose of this.
It's not even really that difficult. Take a VOIP CLEC like Zoom. A USA based company buys service from them, and then deploys those virtual numbers to India. To the billing department, USCo, Inc. is paying the bill. The terminations are all in the USA. But, poos are using those virtual numbers to call you from your local area code.
The article talks primarily about cellular numbers, but no one is calling you from those. It's all phone farms in Asia.
This is horseshit. The phone companies can't figure out who is making the calls?
Of course they do, someone has to get billed when a call is made. The only problem these days is some VOIP provider in the USA may sell service to India, and after the VOIP carrier it's sometimes hard to tell where the call comes from. They're not coming from cell phones, this is just control overreach.
I deal with that by blocking everything.
Don't carriers already identify their customers? I know mine did, shit I think they ran a credit check after I added a fifth line. Just block all incoming calls from poo land and we'll be fine.
Yeah you need to provide identifying information for most telephone transactions now.
I haven't been able to buy a SIM and activate it would some info for a long time. Doesn't matter anyway, robocalls aren't coming from cellular devices, they're coming from VOIP providers with terminations in India.
Ummm, no.
