Growing up in Australia, I was jealous of local, outgoing landline calls being free in North America.

Having said that, and living here now, I wonder how many of these ridiculous scam, spam and random calls I wouldn't get if the callers had at least a few cents per call tacked on to the price?

I mean, I have no doubt that they probably pay some provider for some access to the network, but if calls had essentially 'a few cents' at the bare minimum... I know normal people would have to pay the same thing, but still.

And who knows... having not been in Australia for so long, things may be just as awful there now too, but I do know that I never hear my mother complaining about all the calls.