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How to stop robocalls in an hour — and it has nothing to do with Articul8
The scourge of robocalls
If you are like most people, you get way too many robocalls. Billions of them go out monthly, and there is no indication this will lessen anytime soon. You can listen to recordings of these robocall scammers here to get a feel for their lies and deceptive techniques. An industry exists to stop robocalls, but they only attack the symptom, not the root problem.
Robocalls can, in fact, be stopped in an hour. And here is how to do that: US Attorney General Merrick Garland and Chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission Jessica Rosenworcel get on a conference call with the CEOs of the leading telcos, including Verizon, ATT, Spectrum, Comcast, CenturyLink, T-Mobile, and a few others. They inform them that they have 1 hour to stop these calls. The telco CEOs will kvetch, throw their hands in the air, and whine that they can’t do it.
Garland and Rosenworcel then reply: We know you have the technology today to do that. We know that you know precisely where these calls originate. And we know that you are profiting off these calls. You have 30 days to stop 90% of these calls, or we revoke your licenses to operate.
And 30 days later, the robocalls are stopped.
