I bought the phone set with answering machine and call blocking but you have to keep up with it they keep changing their numbers ,LOL
I read the FCC 5/24 press release, and it hit one of my sore spots right away: "U.S. consumers received nearly 4 billion robocalls per month in 2020"
When I relate to any part of my government, I am not a "consumer". I am a citizen.
And my government should not be acting as a referee between a "consumer" and a "merchant". This mischaracterizes the problem.
Yes, it's old fashioned to be on a copper loop. Yes, I also have a cell phone, which accounts for 99% of my call traffic. But my landline works on a low-voltage circuit invented by Alexander Goddam Bell that stays on when the power goes off.
But I'm old fashioned because I'm old. The phone ringing is a signal to me - son, father, grandfather, doctor - that somebody might need me, that something might be wrong.
There's an FCC because the Congress decided, a long time ago, to regulate this form of interstate commerce.
Why should I have to spend time, spend money, buy new equipment, sign up for another non-functional quasi-governmental thing called the "no call list"?
I want my Congress to ban this and execute the offenders. Nothing less will do.