This is why my personal preference is to make the telcos more liable. If you get a spam call, I think that your telco should pay up under the TCPA if they can’t collect from the next company in the chain, etc. All these companies will shape up very quickly.
I could barely care a rats ass for telcos. I want internet provider I can trust. I have very little use for a voice phone provider except for authentication.
If I could transfer my main number to something that only accepted sms and voicemail I would immediately and move my iCloud account to an email address.
I don’t believe in at&t, Verizon it any of them. Something better is coming.
ATT and Verizon (and T-Mobile and Sprint) own all the mobile communications infrastructure. ATT and Verizon own a lot of the wired communications infrastructure. They are not going anywhere.