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> 1. You need cooperation to ensure valid callerid (mobile telcos can't do much call authentication on their own). It will take a long time for this be fixed.

> 2. There was supposedly a confusion around whether they were allowed to block anything. That's gone now.

Under the current system, it seems 100% of spam gets through that could so easily be filtered. At an old small business I worked at, we received ~10 calls per day from an identical caller ID number robocaller and ~20 calls per day from a robocaller always using a slightly different very long string of characters. Due to the nature of the company, the main line had to be manned by a human being, so even just the time to look at the caller ID, ignore the caller, and then re-focus back on task was at least 15 minutes of lost productivity every day, yet this is about the easiest type of spammy activity to filter. No need to cooperate with anyone but your customers.

The second could be interpreted as: regulations caused the proliferation of robocalling, as we can see in the unregulated email space that far more spam is sent yet far less ever makes it through the filters. What problems will the new regulations cause?



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