One of the services they gave me as a longtime subscriber was an ap called "No-Mo-Robo." I say ap, but it doesn't work on cellphones, only on landlines. This NoMoRobo was great, they identified every spam caller I ever got, and it gave me the ability to block (or not answer) the robo-dialed calls. They knew when a call was coming in from somewhere else, even another country - and it spoofed the source so that it looked like a local call. Verizon told me through the NoMoRobo ap that that's exactly what it was, a spoofed source.
Then about 5 or 6 years ago, I'm not sure of the date, but it was around the time of the Covid lockdown, they stopped giving away the ap. I had it from an early download, but new subscribers weren't allowed to use it. Or maybe they had to pay for it as an extra service, I don't know. But the idea of blocking robo-dialed calls to the landlines has been discontinued. Verizon figured out that it was hurting their revenue, is the only thing I can guess.
Last year I had a housefire and lost all my appliances, electrical wiring, everything. It's all being replaced now but Verizon will no longer be my phone service or my internet service. Needless to say, I'm also done with their cable service as well.
But the NoMoRobo is a fond memory of mine, and I considered it as proof that they could have done away with all these spam calls - and hiding the source of the calls - a long time ago. But they didn't, and now it's gone.
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