Originally Posted by
redburgundy
Somewhere I saw that they will eventually make you listen to a short ad before allowing your outgoing call.
That's already been tried ... used to be in play in the later 1990s.
In any event, per the above post, the ad-idea seems more complicated than even the interesting regulatory-enabled "payment for traffic" arbitrage.
Strikes me as a bit like some other schemes, in a different industry, that got the regulators attention yet resulted in essentially nothing other than the SROS/markets adjusting the rules to shut down gaming of the market any further.