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Parents are bringing back the landline

washingtonpost.com

4 points by 7402 3 months ago · 3 comments

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zahlman 3 months ago

Doesn't do anything about the sheer volume of spam and scam calls.

  • theamk 3 months ago

    Did you read the article?

    > kid-specific, adult-controlled landline phone

    > allows parents to control the hours when it is in use and which phone numbers are approved to call in to (or be called from) the closed network.

    No spam or scam on this phone!

    (unless they impersonate one of the known numbers, but this is pretty unlikely, and you don't have to add any POTS number to begin with, you can operate on completely closed network)

    • zahlman 3 months ago

      > Did you read the article?

      I read as much as it would show me without enabling JavaScript.

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