Filtering out pest calls

If you ask just about any nontechnical person on the street what they would most like the government to do in the telecommunications space, the answer probably wouldn’t involve 5G, the NBN, or cybersecurity. It would be something along the lines of “stop all these damn spam calls.”

Comprising a heady mix of scams, political robocalls, surveys and marketing calls, millions of these calls are made every day and most mobile phone and landline owners are plagued by them, to the point where many people have just stopped answering calls. Unfortunately, the government has done very little to stop them; and the telecommunications providers, who are best placed to do something, have been mostly AWOL on