For the vast majority, robocalls and spam phone calls are a fact of daily life. At this point, I get more robocalls and spam calls than actual calls over the phone. I never pick up unless I recognize the phone number, which has led to me ignoring calls from people I actually want to talk to but aren’t in my contacts. First Orion estimates 50 percent of all mobile phone traffic is robocalls or spam, and YouMail puts the total number of robocalls to Americans just in January at 5.2 billion. That’s 167.3 million robocalls a day, or 1,936 robocalls every second, and on pace for at least 62 billion spam calls in 2019. But 2019 is also the year where, if everything goes according to plan, robocallers and spammers are going to find it much harder to make your phone ring.