Voice calls: only good for spam these days?

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By Eddie Hold on March 10, 2026

150 years after Alexander Graham Bell’s first phone call I’m declaring voice calls irrelevant. Why? Because apparently my mobile service was not allowing incoming calls and it took me a year to even notice.

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