Eventually the obvious spam callers would all quit and the volume would reduce to a handful of borderline cases. So the spam department wouldn't make a lot of money anymore, but the volume would be so low it would barely register.
Eventually the obvious spam callers would all quit and the volume would reduce to a handful of borderline cases. So the spam department wouldn't make a lot of money anymore, but the volume would be so low it would barely register.
They can't get the money from the spammers, if they could this wouldn't be a problem in the first place.
I don't see a downside yet.
What peer networks? Vodaphone, AT&T or whatever the largest operator in India is? You're going to cut off India because someone there calls people claiming to be Microsoft selling antivirus protection? Refuse calls from AT&T?
Nah man, you're not. Also not from a customer that ordered 100 numbers last month and is defunct this month, leaving you with 100 000 confirmed spam calls to pay for.
If it was possible to simply charge the spammers money, this wouldn't be a problem in the first place.
See: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129679> from a few days back.
Audio analysis (probably AI/LLM-based) might be invoked on some, but even that is probably overkill.
Better: an appeals / review process which more-or-less automatically grants an initial reverse judgement, though if complaints continue from additional sources, that decision is reversed.
The real goal of my variant of this proposal isn't to nail the call originators but the networks (carriers) which either serve as origin or transit this traffic.