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Blocking a number on you phone just tells the phone to hide the incoming call not the carrier. The call rings through unanswered and then the carrier routes it to voicemail like any other call.
You would need to block the caller at the carrier. Most have some kind of block list you can enable. The alternative would be a non-standard dialer app that, rather than hiding the incoming call, would pick it up and drop it. I don't know if such software exists.
Edit: dialer not diaper.
The Pampers app does this well. First I tried Luvs and Huggies but they were trash.
I assume you meant dialer app 😆 . But anyway, for some Android phones you can use call screening.
But why does it work like that? You could just as easily make the phone silently pick up and silently hang up.
That's not a complete solution, though. If it relies on the phone to implement the block, then blocking wouldn't work when the phone is turned off or otherwise unavailable (not within service range, in airplane mode on an airplane, etc.).
For prepaid phones or international roaming phones, you'd be charged for a 1 minute call and hit with a roaming charge.
Tons of technological debt would be my assumption.
What I'd prefer is a standardized API where the block is done at the carrier.
@SeeJayEmm @rastilin even without that, they have "visual voicemail" apis set up on most carriers now... the phone could just as easily block (auto-delete) the voicemail as well.
Maybe there's some carriers that also charge for incoming calls, at least in Roaming.