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We don't have spam calls over here in Germany. I _never_ received one. There were 3 calls I remember that were doing research stuff, but that's all. And telling them to not call again would have solved it, btw.

It seems to be related to other stuff the US is behind on, but I've given up on finding out how it could be fixed in the general (last 20 years) political climate.

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The “caller pays” system in Europe helps a lot to make spamming less cost effective. In the US we don’t have that system. A cell call incurs charges to the recipient for the cellular service. The caller may not have to pay at all beyond basic line service.

We had an effective program for a few years eliminating telemarketing calls on landlines.

I think it might be mostly that you're not in an English speaking country. Based on accent, a lot of spam calls appear to originate from developing countries.

That would explain maybe a 100x difference on it's own. But that's already way over, if I aggregate data from close family about how many spam calls they got.

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