I did this probably over 10 years ago, I have not changed my phone #, and I receive very few spam calls. I did receive some in 2015 and stated I would like them to remove me from there list and not contact me again, and I never heard from them again. The majority of "spam" I get is from recruiters offering me jobs for tech I haven't done in 15 years :(
... The number of calls went up and stayed up months after i did that.
I still get 5-10 spam calls per day.
True, but they mostly call you if the polls are closing and your haven't voted yet.
> Any nominal business relationship is also exempt.
true, but here again they have a relationship and are at least somewhat useful. They also aren't robo calls, but a real person spending their time calling you so they won't abuse your time like robo calls do.
As for the business calls - it's a lot of car warranty crap and similar mostly useless, borderline scammy sales pitches.
[1]: https://xkcd.com/1129/ applies well to me.
Technically, yes, you can obtain a judgement against a call center operating outside the US, but you're never going to collect on that judgement.