By one measure, robocalls bombarded US smartphone owners with almost 50 billion calls last year. It’s an out-of-control problem that’s certainly part of the reason consumers seem to be answering their phones less than ever these days — especially with the rise of “spoofed” calls that use local numbers to mask a robocaller’s identity. Which is why you probably won’t be surprised to learn that First Orion, a provider of call protection and call enhancement solutions, predicts that almost half of all calls to mobile phones this year will fall into this category. And that consumers will let the vast majority of calls they get go unanswered.
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