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Ofcom to crack down on telcos' handling of nuisance callers

AndrueC Silver badge
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Telephone numbers displayed to people receiving calls must be valid, dialable and uniquely identify the caller.

How will that apply to international calls? A lot of countries can't/don't/won't supply CLI last I heard. Of course banning those will cut out a fair bit of 'spam' but enforcing it will also block legitimate calls from large swathes of the world.

According to Wikipedia very few countries do (which I find a little unlikely) and don't follow the same standards (which sadly doesn't surprise me).

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