…have spam filters for SMS and calls just as advanced as those on GMail ? Asking TRAI to take action on Do Not Call regulations seem too idealistic. A SMS / call filter integrated into the phone OS could basically look at every calling number and decide whether to even get the phone to ring….the first time you get a call from a random tele-marketer, you could basically mark it as spam. Going forward, any calls received from this number would never ring, instead going to straight to voice mail. Going even further, you could also mark those numbers. from which if you got a call when you were meeting, would be the only ones ringing. The rest would go to voicemail automatically? Not thought this out fully, but it seems like a product with a lot of potential !
Why don’t we…..
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A spam telephone call blocker… that would be the one cellphone app I would want. But it would have to identify ‘calling number withheld’ callers, so there would need to be interaction with the service provider…
Anyone who can come up with something that blocked these unidentified number call centres, can have free advertiisng on my websites, blogs, social nets.
A really good idea
Good point….but atleast in a scenario like India, telecom service providers actually make money off the tele-marketers so that may not work…but atleast we can ensure those that do not have the calling number withheld (from what I know it’s the majority of them….) can be blocked….but yeah, point taken….