Posted on 12/04/2004 2:57:01 PM PST by BulletBobCo
Telemarketers will soon have access to your cell phone number.
This spring, all cell phone numbers will be put into a directory. The good news is, you do not have to worry about losing your friend's cell phone number. The bad news is, telemarketers will be calling your phone and using up your minutes.
"It would be an option if you wanted to be in a directory or not. There could be some advantages - some people are virtually unreachable. About 5% of the cell phone users don't have a land line listing anywhere, so you lose your friends cell number and you don't have a way to get to them. So there could be that advantage", said Pamela Meyer of the Better Business Bureau.
If you wish to have your cell phone number added to the Do Not Call List, call 1-888-382-1222. You must call from the number you wish to have added to the list.
If this does start then We will have those little canned compressed air horns for each phone.
When it is verified that the call is from a telemarketer then We will ask them to "hold for moment" put in ear plugs, pick up the can and BLAST 'EM and then hang up.
What are you talking about? This makes no sense.
I think we cell users can compile a directory of telemarketers calling us and boycott the hell out of them.
Everytime a telemarketer calls, and drains your battery via your ringtone, which you have to charge with home electricity, you are incurring an actual LOSS.
Since I live in MD, should I call Peter Angelos for you?
I don't care who takes credit. I just want it stopped before it starts.
I'm with you - I choose not to be accessible 24/7, LIFE IS GOOD!
wow that bowl of popcorn sure is tempting, ahem, oh sorry, were we discussing telemarketers?!!!
"Well, I use my cell phone only for outgoing calls, so it's off all the time, unless I need to make a call. No problem for me, at least."
That's what you think. They'll call, leave messages on your voicemail, and your voicemail will become useless unless you chose to spend the minutes to access it and erase the messages. Being put in a directory without being asked pisses me off.
"That's what you think. They'll call, leave messages on your voicemail, and your voicemail will become useless unless you chose to spend the minutes to access it and erase the messages. Being put in a directory without being asked pisses me off.
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Actually, nobody has my cell phone number. I use it only for outgoing calls. So I never check my voicemail. In fact, I've never even activated it.
My cell phone is for MY convenience only. I don't ever take calls on it. I only call out on the thing. It's not a problem.
ping
The feds are in the process of repealing that rule.
I'm really looking forward to having to pay for someone to sell me something.
I dug out the link to the story. They published the reg so that the comment period would be over the holidays when most folkes were focused on other things. Here's the story from Thanksgiving weekend.
Do Not Call list may get loophole
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1289535/posts
"The Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Washington-based privacy watchdog, says the change could result in the 64 million people enrolled in the list being bombarded by "answering-machine spam" and other unwanted voices on voice mail."
Read more at the link, or at the FTC website:
https://secure.commentworks.com/ftc-tsr/
They'll never get my cell phone number.
As I have "blocked numbers rejected" on my phone, the telemarketers have a new strategem; they send the number 111-111-1111 to the caller ID. Of course, politicians call the most. (Whoever calls the least gets the vote though.)
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