cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/8326497
The FCC can now punish telecom providers for charging customers more for less::The Federal Communications Commission has passed new digital discrimination rules that hold telecom providers accountable for not providing equal internet access.
Punish them for their complete inability to block spam calls. Million bucks per successfully connected call would fix it overnight and then our phone would be worthwhile as phones once again.
FCC recently begged congress to let them punish spam calls. It turns out that they currently have to research then forward to the justice department for it to do its own research then file an order against a specific name, then the company changes its name and throws the fine in the trash can, and the cycle repeats
Idk how we can spend billions on surveillance but can’t catch a few morons spoofing telephone numbers.
frequency of ‘spam’ calls should have significant gone down with the implementation of cid verification (stir/shaken). it has on all our lines; home and office–cellular and pots.
Yeah, how the hell is it that I need a real, functioning phone number to use Signal, but then some robocaller can impersonate a number from my area code without actually owning it?
Privacy truly does belong to the rich.
Dont be unrealistic, until the entire system is rebuilt from the ground up on all telcos thats literally impossible.
Corporate America can move mountains when fines cut into profit margins. I am not kidding when I say this would be fixed immediately.
You realize the telcos themselves know exactly where the spam calls are coming from, right? You can be damn sure that functionality was a top priority from day 1 because (just like for all subscribers) they need to know the spammers’ usage in order to bill them for it.
They just don’t bother passing that information along to end users or law enforcement because nobody’s forcing them to.
They dont actually thanks to VoIP and other countries telcos being shit and pushing through whatever is sent with the call, which is exactly where that disconnect happens. Ive been in Telecom a long time, and the push to fix that problem was very real long before Indian scammers were spoofing calls for IT scams. Once you go to IP, the “real” link isnt there, and CID becomes no more than a data string which is no longer tied to anything physical as far as telecom infrastructure, which they have to accept in the current set up, which is why said the whole thing has to start from scratch.
The other issue is the way non ILECs send the CID is exactly how the scammers spoof, to cut that off, all CLECs would loose the ability to send CID data, businesses wouldn’t be able to send a main phone from their 3000+ extensions etc. Its far from a simple soulution which is why its still an issue.
CID data being injected has absolutely nothing to do with a line being used regardless of what the outbound DID actually is.