How about we just make robocalls illegal.
If you can’t pay a person to do it, it must not be important enough.
If you can’t pay a person to do it, it must not be important enough.
If, for instance, my water company called me with such a notice, it's not likely I would actually hear about it that way, because I'd assume it was a robocall. I'd more likely hear about it through other media outlets.
robocalls are never necessary
... my city (Austin) addresses this with paper inserts on the door
There are alternatives, presenting your options as the extent feels deliberately shortsighted
I never received a robocall in my life (and no spam calls at all after those where made illegal in the EU years ago).
Whereas in a developing country I had like 2-3 ad calls/wk and now I get none in EU.
Paying a bunch of school administrators to call several thousand homes is a waste of money.
many systems exist where you have to respond yes to acknowledge receipt. They can manually call the 1% that didn't respond.
Robocall technology isn't free either.
If you charged a nickel to complete a call, the Water and Power Department can at worst, slip a $1 fee into a bill to build up a fund to pay for emergency outage calls. (Hopefully, they don't intend to call each customer more than 20 times per month).
But any industry based on spray-and-pray and miniscule take rates will find it too expensive to play.