> They speculated that it is because in India the person making the call or sending the text is the one who pays for it.
Wait, what, do people in US pay for receiving texts or calls?
Wait, what, do people in US pay for receiving texts or calls?
Most cell plans now include unlimited incoming calls and texts, so it's not really a problem, but the sender does not pay anything either, which is a problem.
If the robocaller/spammer doesn't pay for it, I think that explains why these things are so rampant in the US. In Netherland, it's only the caller who pays, and robocalls and sms spam are extremely rare here (at least in my experience).
Although these days, many phone subscriptions come with unlimited calls and texts, so the caller/texter doesn't pay either. Somehow this doesn't seem to have lead to an increase in spam and robocalls.
While in Japan, I remember calling a mobile from payphone I could see the balance of the call card going down every few seconds...
Though, these days, I think most of them seem to have shifted to texting and VoIP calling on apps, which are free.
Even with "caller-pay" model, they still have experience good share of annoyances, that many of those caller opted for "one-ring" spam where they would call, but hang up before receiver picks it up.
The only thing is when the mobile phone is abroad and there are roaming charges; in that case, the callee still pays, because the caller has no way of knowing. But these days, roaming charges have been banned within the EU, so that problem has also disappeared.