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But why does it work like that? You could just as easily make the phone silently pick up and silently hang up.
For prepaid phones or international roaming phones, you'd be charged for a 1 minute call and hit with a roaming charge.
That's not a complete solution, though. If it relies on the phone to implement the block, then blocking wouldn't work when the phone is turned off or otherwise unavailable (not within service range, in airplane mode on an airplane, etc.).
Tons of technological debt would be my assumption.
What I'd prefer is a standardized API where the block is done at the carrier.
@SeeJayEmm @rastilin even without that, they have "visual voicemail" apis set up on most carriers now... the phone could just as easily block (auto-delete) the voicemail as well.
Maybe there's some carriers that also charge for incoming calls, at least in Roaming.