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It exists.

It's utterly ineffective to the scale of attack.



It’s still being deployed. Or more precisely, it’s now mandatory and the service providers which haven’t implemented it are in the process of being forcibly removed from the PSTN: https://natlawreview.com/article/fcc-cracks-down-are-you-rea...


The US telecoms industry has supposedly been "fighting phone spam" for well over a decade. I can tell you it's simply not working.

The system will die, if not from the abuse than from rejection by individuals, businesses, and organisations. And I suspect we'll never again have a single universally-accessible voice comms system again.

Email has similarly been slowly dying for similar reasons.




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