Anonymous Caller Rejection Service?
Matthew
On my BT landline I have a service called Anonymous Caller Rejection - so
if anyone rings with a 141 prefix or an unavailable number tries to ring,
the call gets rejected with a message to the caller to ring again without
holding their number.
This can prevent unwanted calls (e.g. non-sales calls!) but also
unfortunately genuine callers sometimes get rejected (doesn't happen often
though).
Is there a similar service available on any of the UK Mobile networks?
Thanks all,
Matt
Bryan Anderson
> Is there a similar service available on any of the UK Mobile
> networks?
If there isn't, then a YAC number can be set up to only forward calls
if a caller ID is shown. (www.yac.com)
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Matthew
*DOH*! I meant to say ....can prevent unwanted calls (e.g. SALES calls!).
Matt
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> > This can prevent unwanted calls (e.g. non-sales calls!)
>
> *DOH*! I meant to say ....can prevent unwanted calls (e.g. SALES calls!).
>
> Matt
yip - can also prevent calls from call boxes though (i,e someone from your
family is trying to call home in an emergency) also when someone fones from
abroad we often find the number wont come up.........
Graham Ash
To cut out virtually all unwanted sales calls you could register with the
telephone preference service at http://www.tps-online.org.uk/tpsr/html/ I
used to get 4 or 5 unwanted calls a day, since registering they have almost
completly dried up. And it is a free service.
Graham
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James
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> Matthew,
>
> To cut out virtually all unwanted sales calls you could register with the
> telephone preference service at http://www.tps-online.org.uk/tpsr/html/ I
> used to get 4 or 5 unwanted calls a day, since registering they have
almost
> completly dried up. And it is a free service.
Any suggestions on whats the best way to wind sales calls up? If I hear the
call centre "noise" in the background, then the opportunity is there to hang
up even before the words "double glazing" are mentioned.
Tom Moore
> Any suggestions on whats the best way to wind sales calls up?
Start off interested, once caller's enthusiasm sounds engaged, start to
miss hear the odd word. Slowly turn into a stupid, deaf old rat bag.
Invite them round to your new address: you can make the police station's
address sound quite ordinary, if you try.
The caller is not likely to respond by making sure you get no more such
calls; far more likely to ensure you get plenty more. Unless they are
paying mobile rates, Annoying Double Glazing Inc., is unlikely to notice
the cost.
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Dave Gill
> yip - can also prevent calls from call boxes though (i,e someone from your
> family is trying to call home in an emergency) also when someone fones from
> abroad we often find the number wont come up.........
Those types of call should be flagged as "number unavailable" instead of
"number withheld". Number unavailable calls should get past the ACR
block (which is why some cold-callers now rig their lines to flag
"unavailable" when they should flag "withheld").
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Steve Terry
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>
> To cut out virtually all unwanted sales calls you could register with the
> telephone preference service at http://www.tps-online.org.uk/tpsr/html/ I
> used to get 4 or 5 unwanted calls a day, since registering they have almost
> completly dried up. And it is a free service.
> Graham
>
an offence by calling a TPC registered phone, and can be fined thousands,
and you'd like their details, they've never called twice.
Steve Terry
Robin Weston
Or just report them to the TPC? And have a warm glow from helping
others?
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bk
> yip - can also prevent calls from call boxes though (i,e someone
from your
> family is trying to call home in an emergency) also when someone fones from
> abroad we often find the number wont come up.........
Some calls through switchboards/exchanges may suffer the same fate.
Calls from my local hospital come up as anonymous on by mobile (o2)
and witheld when using 1471. ( I can't quite remember what happens on
my BT line).
covendotartdottalk21dotcom
"John Temperley" <ne...@usenetz.clara.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 8 Apr 2003 22:59:24 +0100, someone purporting to be "Matthew"
> <ma...@SPAM-TRAP-REMOVEronce.worldonline.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > On my BT landline I have a service called Anonymous Caller Rejection -
> >
>
>
> **67*<your BT number here>#
This may of course, not work if you are a prepay subscriber, as some (all?)
networks only allow prepay subscribers to divert to the network's voicemail,
due to the way in which the real-time billing of prepay works.
PeterW
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Having subscribed to TPS, it is nice being able to tell the agent that they
have made themslves liable for a £5000 fine by disregarding your TPS
registration and then ask for their details (or ask to speak to their
supervisor) so you can make a complaint with a view to prosecution.
They usually hang up on you pronto, and you generally won't hear from them
again.
Peter
Steve Terry
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I've never had one call back twice
Steve Terry