Chicken and the egg problem. Few carriers support it, so they can't block unverified calls (yet).
So the most they can do is log (display) when a good call comes through. I imagine this requires cooperation on the manufacturers part to alter the phone app to display a verification success.
One thing they already did is display "Scam Likely" for some calls. This is on an iPhone, but I think it's a T-Mobile thing. It misses a ton of spam calls from numbers that match the first six digits of my own number, and had at least one false positive, which was my bank calling.
I kept my number from a city I lived but has almost zero connections right now. It makes things simple as every
time I received a call with the same area code, I can be sure it's a scammer.
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9/10 phone calls I get are spam/scam nowadays...
So the most they can do is log (display) when a good call comes through. I imagine this requires cooperation on the manufacturers part to alter the phone app to display a verification success.