> I thought this was supposed to happen 5 years ago. Did they just chicken out on the prospect of actually shutting down telcos sending spam volume?

It would certainly hurt a consumption-based economy, for starters.

Why would that hurt a consumption-based economy?

twodave 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Telcos make money off of scammer activity.

	▲	colechristensen 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe in the same way that Office Depot makes money on the envelopes used in mail fraud

swed420 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's a vector for advertising.

	▲	philipallstar an hour ago \| parent [-]
		But that's not a consumer initiative. Advertising can come from all sorts of places that the consumer doesn't like, and in economies where advanced levels of consumer choice are limited to the state bureaucrats.