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[pimentel1]

Your phone carrier can now block robocalls by default | CNN Business

Robocalls are flooding cell phones, interrupting dinners, and scamming people out of money. Relief could finally be on the horizon, but perhaps at a cost.

www.cnn.com

YEEEEESSSSSS!!!!!!!!

The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to give wireless carriers like Verizon the green light to block unwanted robocalls automatically for all customers.

The vote clears the way for carriers to switch on robocall-blocking technologies for phone lines by default. The technologyworks by using algorithms and network scanning to identify unwanted calls, similar to how email providers scan for spam messages.

 

[JORMBO]

Good! I started getting 10 random calls a day this week from Texas. My phone is in DND mode now because they have gotten so annoying.

It’s crazy these assholes can spam me with calls all day and I can’t stop them.

 

[jshackles]

Sure they can, but will they?

Sounds like something they'll try and get people to pay extra for.

 

[Pagusas]

$9.99/month for Ai Cell Ad Blocking incoming.

 

[TacosNSalsa]

I just use the Should I Answer app which blocks all calls that are from numbers not in my contacts..its ridiculous how many it blocks a day..I something like that for the house phone too

 

[pimentel1]

Verizon led the fight and says they can flip a switch to turn it on. You can decide to opt out and receive the calls but they’re planning to just flip it on at no cost. Their blocking app is already free. If it’s not free by other companies, this will be yet another feature that will stand Verizon out from the crowd.

 

[cryptoadam]

WTF is this BS if my Robo GF is trying to call me she will be blocked?

Does no one think of Robo rights?

Well there goes my Robo hand job for the weekend....

 

[pimentel1]

WTF is this BS if my Robo GF is trying to call me she will be blocked?

Does no one think of Robo rights?

Well there goes my Robo hand job for the weekend....

Your Robo GF was a hoe. She loved me long time, too. Hell, she loved everyone.

 

[cryptoadam]

Your Robo GF was a hoe. She loved me long time, too. Hell, she loved everyone.

If her Robo pimp here's you talking like that he will give you a Robo slap!

 

[infinitys_7th]

WTF is this BS if my Robo GF is trying to call me she will be blocked?

Does no one think of Robo rights?

Well there goes my Robo hand job for the weekend....

Feels for a gynoid-lovin' brotha.

 

[LegendOfKage]

WTF is this BS if my Robo GF is trying to call me she will be blocked?

Does no one think of Robo rights?

Well there goes my Robo hand job for the weekend....

Your Robo GF was a hoe. She loved me long time, too. Hell, she loved everyone.

If her Robo pimp here's you talking like that he will give you a Robo slap!

 

[pimentel1]

Well, whatever Verizon is doing ain’t working. Even with the call filter installed. Even with the FCC passage. Now, the wife gets calls from her own number. Considering changing carriers.

 

[20cent]

Spam call blocking apps work very well too.

 

[pimentel1]

Spam call blocking apps work very well too.

Any recommendations? one for iOS and one for Android?

 

[888]

My phone gets multiple a day. And I get tons of texts for a guy named Randy and people wanting to buy his property.

 

[20cent]

Any recommendations? one for iOS and one for Android?

Your phone carrier (if you are US based, and not "pre-paid" customer) should have an "official" call blocking app on the store. Maybe same in Europe.
Many, many others exist with very regularly updated database, but I believe some are focused on certain countries only.

The one I use is for Hong Kong only so...

 

[NeededSleep]

Will be so worth it during election times.

 

[Mista]

I get calls from Zimbabwe, Uganda..etc
Almost daily