I have come across a few providers who advertise they will only take phone calls. No texts. No emails. Personally, this is usually an avoid for me. I’m often a little nervous at first when booking. Being able to email or text is much more in my comfort zone. But I wonder, why would a provider prefer phone calls?

They want to eliminate clients with certain accents or dialects or generally poor syntax.  
Why they don't just say NBA or otherwise make it clear is a mystery to me. I've only experienced this requirement once. Fortunately I passed inspection.

-It helps cut down on time wasters. You're not going to get guys calling to just say "hey" or "you available."
-It allows the provider to get a gauge on the guy by hearing his voice and how he responds in real time.
-It gets rid of fake text apps.

I agree with first two, especially #2.

I'm not sure about #3, don't burner apps for voice cost pretty much the same as fake text apps? I have several "fake" numbers I use for both voice and text.

 

To the other poster, I do think with how good Ai is at voice imitation, and how accessible voice Ai is, that in several years if you want to appear a certain race/with a certain accent on the phone, you would be easily be able to.

That works until you show up to the appointment. Things tend to go south when a provider realizes a client is trying to pull a stunt. I prefer to manage expectations. It is always better if you meet or exceed expectations and things go south when expectations are not met. For this reason I avoid playing games or being deceptive to a certain degree.

I wouldn't do it either.

I'm just saying is that if some treat the voice over a call as a filter to filter out guys who might be of uh, unwanted origin, at some point there will be mechanisms that will help guys "cheat" or bypass the filter.

I used to require booking via phone, until 2010 when I became a Mom. Email only for me. Before I converted the phone conversation was a means of screening to get a feel for your personality. Now it’s not necessary to chat over the phone. I charge for phone calls. Emails can be overwhelming. It should never take 20+ emails to book a date, but it continues to be huge factor in communication. I may have emailed 50+ times for my FMTY next week that was booked over a month ago and we have never spoke in the phone. He’s married. I respect ✊🏽 honesty & am a professional woman of leisure.

I can see it cutting  time wasters down on them. On the flip side, a text or email come and wait for whenever it works for her. A phone call means having to be more available to answer them. If they’re not available, do they take voicemails and call back? Or, do they just take the SOL approach and put it on the client to keep trying until she is available to answer the call? Seems that phone calls could have its own time management challenges.  

 
As for the gauge, that’s an easy one. I have had providers want to talk on the phone or FT after booking and screening, but before the date. This almost completely weeds out the time wasters and limits live conversations to serious clients. An initial phone call may limit time wasters, but I’m sure they still get them. And, they don’t just lose time wasters, but some serious clients like me. I’m simply not calling if that’s how she wants to start.

 
I think just like emails and text messages, it has its flaws. Seems like a preference thing, not necessarily a better thing.

I recently just talked to a lady after texting . It was just to get to know each other since we haven’t meet before and it was going to be a long date. I’ve never ran into one who preferred calls over other means. Who knows 🤷‍♂️

Another reason for phone calls is texts and emails leave around messages that can be subpoenaed.  Phone calls only leave a record of phone A called phone B, but not the contents of the conversation.