Phone companies must now block carriers that didn’t meet FCC robocall deadline(arstechnica.com)
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Phone companies must now block carriers that didn’t meet FCC robocall deadline
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/expanded-robocall-blocking-has-begun-but-there-are-still-too-many-loopholes/
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But what if something unusual happens, for example if something happens with my son phone I instructed him to ask a friend to call me (we wrote my number down)... I think as always the problem needs to be solved at it's root and not with some hack that fails in some important cases.
I don't have kids, but I always thought 911 or a law firm were good substitutes for 24/7 on call for a caretaker.
I am not from US, so I don't understand this, can you explain? A kid phone battery dies or the phone is lost, so the kid calls the emergency services?
I misunderstood your point. You were talking about when something happens to your son's phone; I read it as something happening to your son.
I set up greylisting and it works great. First call from an unknown number gets SIT and "Please try this call again", second call goes through. Spammers don't call back, real people do.
edit: I'm running Asterisk. The initial implementation was for a landline, so I used a landline->SIP gateway and a rejected call would still ring the phone once (this way it would fail gracefully). I've since transitioned the landline to VOIP so all calls go through Asterisk. My mobile number is on Gvoice so I haven't bothered, but it would be straightforward to have Asterisk police those as well since I've got an OBI200 Gvoice->SIP adapter.
edit: I'm running Asterisk. The initial implementation was for a landline, so I used a landline->SIP gateway and a rejected call would still ring the phone once (this way it would fail gracefully). I've since transitioned the landline to VOIP so all calls go through Asterisk. My mobile number is on Gvoice so I haven't bothered, but it would be straightforward to have Asterisk police those as well since I've got an OBI200 Gvoice->SIP adapter.
I knew that STIR/SHAKEN was required to be implemented in June, but I've actually been receiving more spam/scam calls since then.
It will be interesting to see if this actually makes a difference.
It will be interesting to see if this actually makes a difference.
It won't make a difference. So STIR/SHAKEN prevents caller ID spoofing... Spammers/scammers can still get "legit" numbers and scam from them. It costs about 50 cents/month for a DID.
There was a time in which people were not reachable by voice any time and anywhere. That was fine.