FCC will ‘take action’ in 2019 if carriers aren’t doing enough to fight robocalls

Platapus · 11-07-18, 03:52 PM

These days, with caller ID, if I don't recognize the number, I don't pick up. If they don't leave a message, it probably was not that important in the first place.

A telephone ringing is a request, not an order.

Skybird · 11-07-18, 04:00 PM

Whitelisting is the best option, I use it for my cable phone (Telekom). Every number is blacklisted (blocked). Nobody gets through who has not been whitelisted (cleared) before. The area code of my hometown and the directly neighbourign districts, the three cellphone network codes we have over here, and a very small number of direct numbers (family, close friends) can reahc me. Nobody else whose landline phone is more than 40 km away. Callcentres have no chance - there are none inside the defined area, and the all operate via landline. However, craftsmen for example usually come from the town I live in, or from the near vicinty of it. They can reach me, so can just any cellphone user.

If need arises, I individually clear a single number from further away.

STEED · 11-07-18, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

These days, with caller ID, if I don't recognize the number, I don't pick up. If they don't leave a message, it probably was not that important in the first place.

A telephone ringing is a request, not an order.

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My father gets phone calls from withheld numbers and they leave no messages. These calls are clinics on Hospital grounds usually only ringing about appointments have been changed or checking up. We know they withhold their numbers when he has been able to reach the phone has checked afterwards it was withheld, most cases they ring off far to soon. They then have the cheek to send half a dozens same letters saying we tried to call you but no answer!

Skybird · 11-07-18, 04:28 PM

^Trade the cellphone for something different then.

Only three people have my cellphone number. Now you know why. The others did not survive.

STEED · 11-07-18, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Skybird

^Trade the cellphone for something different then.

Only three people have my cellphone number. Now you know why. The others did not survive.

Landline Sky, they don't ring his cellphone or as way say Mobile.

MK2 stun gun please so I can use the kill setting.

Jimbuna · 11-08-18, 07:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Platapus

These days, with caller ID, if I don't recognize the number, I don't pick up. If they don't leave a message, it probably was not that important in the first place.

A telephone ringing is a request, not an order.

True that

11-07-18, 03:52 PM	#1
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,379 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	These days, with caller ID, if I don't recognize the number, I don't pick up. If they don't leave a message, it probably was not that important in the first place. A telephone ringing is a request, not an order. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

11-07-18, 04:00 PM	#2
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,660 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Whitelisting is the best option, I use it for my cable phone (Telekom). *Every* number is blacklisted (blocked). Nobody gets through who has not been whitelisted (cleared) before. The area code of my hometown and the directly neighbourign districts, the three cellphone network codes we have over here, and a very small number of direct numbers (family, close friends) can reahc me. Nobody else whose landline phone is more than 40 km away. Callcentres have no chance - there are none inside the defined area, and the all operate via landline. However, craftsmen for example usually come from the town I live in, or from the near vicinty of it. They can reach me, so can just any cellphone user. If need arises, I individually clear a single number from further away. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

11-07-18, 04:28 PM	#4
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,660 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	^Trade the cellphone for something different then. Only three people have my cellphone number. Now you know why. The others did not survive. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.