This is just ushering in the end of voice calling entirely. Not too much longer now.<p>Alternatively, one day Apple will add a service to prevent this in a simple way, turn it on by default, and overnight the entire industry will be dead.
The kicker is the robocallers now use phone numbers which match the first six of your own number (area code and first 3 digits). When I was in the process of interviewing with a company and therefore waiting for phone calls, this was incredibly frustrating.
The fact that this is a non existent thing in Austria where I live means it could be solved by legislation and enforcement. If I had to guess the telcos have somehow gotten themselves off the hook here even though they probably profit a lot
Why don't we just institute a national call tax of 1/2 cent per call? It would be negligible for any legitimate call, but it would totally break the business model for robocalls which require millions of calls to get through. I assume an extremely small percentage of people actually buy stuff from robocalls. am i missing something?
I don't know if it's available to all Android users, but the automatic spam detection and manual call screening has been extremely effective at reducing the amount of robocalls I answer.<p>edit: pixel 2
Well, I think it increased more than 50% since last year. I get 5-10 calls each and every week from unknown numbers. All of their VMs are robocalls! Well, I block the numbers immediately. I think the authority should do something about them. I have also read a nice article at <a href="https://www.whycall.me/news/consumer-wins-massive-229500-robocall-lawsuit-against-time-warner-cable/" rel="nofollow">https://www.whycall.me/news/consumer-wins-massive-229500-rob...</a>. People might find this useful.
<a href="https://nomorobo.com" rel="nofollow">https://nomorobo.com</a> and <a href="https://donotcall.gov" rel="nofollow">https://donotcall.gov</a><p>nomorobo was crowdfunded and works well on old-school voip lines where it 1 rings on spam calls.