The problem is that carriers (especially smaller ones) have been dragging their feet on implementing it, and nobody can use it to actually block calls until essentially everybody supports it and is interoperating. Until then, phones will just show calls between STIR/SHAKEN carriers as having verified caller ID.
I highly doubt any carrier would offer this, especially with the current adoption being where it's at. You'd be better off using your phone's capabilities to restrict calls to only your contacts.
Yeah, it's less than ideal, but this is the future that the lazy carriers have brought us to. Hopefully, someone trying to reach me in an emergency would have the brains to send a text.
STIR/SHAKEN hasn't worked correctly or stopped robocalls like promised. Congress basically told everyone that this was the answer and would stop robocallers for good, but in reality did barely anything at all. The real solution is to label robocallers as terrorist and sanction countries with large amounts of robocalls for sponsoring terorrism. Before long, everyone will be too scared to even consider working in a robocall center and they will start turning on each other and reporting their bosses. They should even offer monetary rewards and protections for providing intelligence on the people operating these.
If someone and the coworkers on their floor are calling and scamming old people out of their retirement money, then there is no sarcasm needed here. That should be perfectly justifiable.
I mean, think about how many people scammers are killing prematurely as is. Once these countries that we previously let shit on Americans for a long time have some serious sanctions, I'm sure they'll find ways to deal with the problems themselves.
