On December 20, 2019 at 08:00 na...@ics-il.net (Mike Hammett) wrote: > I can't imagine many telcos are making a lot of money from voice anymore.
They may not be making a huge amount anymore which may be why they're now allowing (i.e., not fighting/lobbying) these folks to be thrown under the bus before someone shines a light on them. > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > Midwest-IX > http://www.midwest-ix.com > > ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ > From: b...@theworld.com > To: "nanog" <nanog@nanog.org> > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2019 5:11:17 PM > Subject: RE: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls > > > They should be fining the telcos, they're making a lot of money on > these calls. > > And if you believe otherwise (e.g., that it's like email spam) you've > been duped by telco PR. > > Unlike spam when was the last time a telco failed to bill you for a > billable phone call? Never. > > They know exactly who is using their system. And they get paid for > it. And these junk callers are making millions of calls per hour when > they're active. > > The entire telco infrastructure has been described as a billing system > with some added voice features. > > Try devising a box which makes millions of voice calls per hour and > see how long it takes before you're stopped dead until you agree to > pay the telcos for those calls, or get arrested. > > -- > -Barry Shein > > Software Tool & Die | b...@theworld.com | > http://www.TheWorld.com > Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD > The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo* > -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*
