I can't imagine building an app like this that is almost guaranteed to change over time and then tying it to a particular mobile phone platform, which is also guaranteed to change over time.

If you do all your automation interface as a web application, then you can customize the UI using your favorite methodology for whatever browser is connected. A simple text based interface for older phones, all the way through to a rich interface for iphone-style phones that have full featured browsers.

This fine article states that although "More than 1 million people have complained to the Federal Trade Commission that annoying telemarketing calls haven't stopped -- even after they've registered with the do-not-call registry, [...] FTC Chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras said that "thousands" of consumers complained that they received telephone solicitations for DirecTV."

The CNN article linked originally above states, "Majoras said the DirecTV case accounted for 1.4 million complaints."

I'm thinking that the CNN article got its facts wrong here...