[spathi_fwiffo]

What surprises me is that it has taken the US Gov. so long to act on this. And even more than that, that it took the Telcos so long -- and they've still barely done anything. It is destroying their business. And now the spam is being allowed to creep into the cell market.

The fact that we all have to screen our calls is just insane. Makes phones almost useless for their intended task.

[kyle_grove]

I don’t know that the telcos care one whit about degradation of trust in telephony; they’re effectively ISPs at this point and telephony is a legacy service.