Board:   [WWIVnet] Tech Talk
Subject: Re: Home phone service
From:    Jimmy Mac #1 @707
To:      Utopian Galt #1 @815
Date:    Mon Sep 06, 2021 10:07

UG> Home phone service seems pointless when most of the calls you get are
UG> junk calls like your car warranty has expired. Problem is older people
UG> still feel reliant and tied to the home phone even when you want to save
UG> 20 more bucks a month off the utility bills.

Wait.. 'feel' reliant?  Have you ever tried to teach an 80 year old how to use
a cell phone? How about trying to teacj a 90 year old how to use a tablet, let
alone a smart phone? Shit.. My sister changed out my mother's cordless phones
and now my mother can only call those of us who drop by and pre-rogram our
numbers in her list of contacts. What bugs me, is that all of the copper
carriers today refuse to repair the lines.

As for the robo calls, yep! It doesn't matter if the recipients are mobile or
land line, the originating number is always spoofed and random so you can't
even block them. Whitelisting woud seriously be a good thing!

I wonder what that would take. I bet it wouldn't be difficult for someone with
the right skills to write an app for that for cell phones, but landlines would
have to be managed by the providers.



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