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Comment by Kon5ole | Hacker News Reader

But your idea is basically that the telco pays anyone 90 dollars per spam call they receive, how does that become a profit center?

They can't get the money from the spammers, if they could this wouldn't be a problem in the first place.

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Peers, with a bonding obligation, and no transit offered to unbonded (never bothered, bond rejected/expired) carriers.

See: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129679> from a few days back.

They get the money from the peer networks that are the source of the spammers. If they don't cough up then you void your peering agreement. If they try to route around through a different trusted peer then that peer takes the hit. If its your own customers then you can do something about it. VOIP peers would quickly run into trouble and they'd probably require new customers to keep a spam deposit, carefully monitor their calls, and have a ramp up period that limits their outbound call rate and lifts it over time.

I don't see a downside yet.

>They get the money from the peer networks that are the source of the spammers.

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.

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