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My point is changing providers is a fruitless endeavour. Your phone number is probably sourced and sold several times/day. Switch carriers and they'll do the same thing. Why? Because no one will stop them, and most people don't know or even care, so why wouldn't they? And your phone number is already out there anyway, there's no taking it back.
Sooo, nothing we can do about it?
Yep. And does it matter. I know my numbers out there don't get many spam calls though. I guess not picking up and doing call screening is effective.
What is call screening? I'm not native, sorry.
Yes and no. You can try and go without a phone number but I've found that to be literally impossible. Or you can change your phone # periodically, that's what I do.
How's it impossible? Can't I just, like, afford one of those small fix phones for poeple to call me?
I don't know what a "small fix phone" is, but the phone is not the problem. The problem is basic services that require a phone number as part of your registration.
Oh. Fix Phone, I don't know if this is the term in English, but I mean it as... one of these on the image, that you leave at home. Also called by the Weirdos That Refuse To Download Signal at my house, "Home's Phone".
Oh yeah, that's a "home phone" or a "landline phone". But these types of phones cannot receive SMS messages so they don't solve the problem.