(raises hand)
I wound up porting out my landline to a cheap VoIP service. Why pay $45/month for AT&T when they first wouldn’t even try to deal with spoofed Caller ID, and now want charge extra to block spoofed calls? Fuck them.
After trying it out for myself, I also got my parents to switch (they use an ATA hooked up to the house phones, and take it with them when they head southwest for the winter).
The VoIP service costs less per month than what AT&T was charging for Caller ID alone, and a quick-and-dirty CAPTCHA in Asterisk (“Press $DIGIT to ring my phone”) keeps my phone quiet, in spite of getting 8-10 robocalls a day. Numbers that I whitelist will ring through without the CAPTCHA.
Today’s AT&T: Everything that was bad about the Bell System made much worse, and none of what was good about it whatsoever.
