Well, old networking guy here, used to work on early IP telephony stuff a bit and still read the industry rags. Currently, about a quarter of all calls in the UK and Spain are spam/robocalls, while only about 10% of calls in the US are, and most of the rest of the world is well under 10%. Which makes sense – the wealthiest, easiest to data-mine, and least protected are the most attacked, and places where there’s still a central government owned and run telecom infrastructure at the carrier level (i.e. no small or independent baby bells) and which have fewer phones/capita and less wealth to scam people out of don’t get as many. Still, it’s a global issue, and its good to see the US acting on this issue.
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