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France is banning unsolicited telemarketing calls starting next week (abcnews.com)
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[–] 54 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Sounds like a copy of a law in Germany. Same rules. Works fine here.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Yeah, but still getting those calls and the Bundesnetzagentur say ah sorry we can't do anything.

    How about upgrading the infrastructure so you can? It's been decades.

    So the law is there but it doesn't work per se since there usually is no punishment as faking numbers is trivial or not pursued.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    I have both German and old Polish SIM card on my phone. The amount of robocalls I get on the Polish card is nuts compared to what I get on German. Polish is like once a week. On a German phone I get maybe one call per year from someone claiming to do surveys.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago

    Hm I would say average one per month or week, and if the number once was in a phone book, more.

    Not saying it's bad compared internationally! But for being illegal, it still happens often enough.

    Of course you can start to discuss from asking where the got the number etc but the best that will happen is them hanging up or cursing at you.

    I've blocked enough mostly not to be bothered, but can of course see the attempts.

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