does anyone know of a landline company that you do not get the dreaded 'congratulations' phonecalls where a recorded message tells you that you have won a cruise to the Bahamas?
You should be able to "opt out" of sales calls and the like with most companies. BT definitely do it, you have to ring a free number and it's an automated service, easy peasy. Number is in phone book but if you don't have one I will look it up for you :)
Cool. Will look at their overall phone/internet deal.
However, with Telewest I gather it's only about £30 a month for all 3 services now! My folks have Telewest, and I'm missing Cable.... I am experiencing withdrawal from my '50 channels of nothing on tv'.
I may experiment by trying to cancel their congratuations calls whilst I'm house sitting, and if it works, get Telewest myself when I move.
I think BT will alow you to bar calls with no caller ID. As long as nobody you know is likely to block callerID this should be fine.
You can certainly opt out using the Telephone prefences service but I've no idea how effective that is about recorded messages. I think they just autodial each number in turn.
Or do what I do - Answer and spend ages wasting their time.
I used to have both a BT and an NTL phone (worked at home). We used to get lots of junk calls on the BT line, but haven't ever had any such calls on our NTL phone.
BT may provide options to reduce the junk calls, but it seems to me that it's only with a BT line that you get such calls in the first place.
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However, with Telewest I gather it's only about £30 a month for all 3 services now! My folks have Telewest, and I'm missing Cable.... I am experiencing withdrawal from my '50 channels of nothing on tv'.
I may experiment by trying to cancel their congratuations calls whilst I'm house sitting, and if it works, get Telewest myself when I move.
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You can certainly opt out using the Telephone prefences service but I've no idea how effective that is about recorded messages. I think they just autodial each number in turn.
Or do what I do - Answer and spend ages wasting their time.
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I'd be interested to hear if anyone's tried it and it actually works.
We did TPS at the Furlong... twice.. and it reduced the frequency of these calls but did not banish them altogether.
I'm also concerned that the nuisances could catch on as well and call from recognisable numbers...
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BT may provide options to reduce the junk calls, but it seems to me that it's only with a BT line that you get such calls in the first place.
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