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Just don't answer. Can't your program your mothers..fathers...best friend sean number. So if a random number calls don't even pay attention. If someone truly needs you they will leave a message.
You didn't get it. If one does not PAY for service that enables caller ID, one has absolutely no way of knowing what number is calling. The phone company just says "If you want to screen junk calls, just pay us some more money, and well enable you to identify them." It's a protection racket. Pay us for Caller ID, or we'll let the calls through unidentified.
The calls are annoying, but come on you can spot them within 3 seconds. Just hang up. I get them on a business line so can't really block them, but combined they take up maybe 1 minute of my time at work on a bad day and many days they don't come in at all. Where I would lose is if I let them bother me and distract me after I hang up. Same thing if I go to the extreme of plotting out how to handle them which wastes time and effort too.
You didn't get it. If one does not PAY for service that enables caller ID, one has absolutely no way of knowing what number is calling. The phone company just says "If you want to screen junk calls, just pay us some more money, and well enable you to identify them." It's a protection racket. Pay us for Caller ID, or we'll let the calls through unidentified.
I still have land line, but except someone dialing a wrong number, the phone NEVER rings. There are weeks to months that I don't have a single call.
Yes, I have a caller ID and unlisted number, and I also registered that number with "Do not call", but is that preventing the robo-calls? I don't know. But the fact remains that I just don't get any calls.
On my cell phone I will get occasionally a spam text message, but I have free "TrueCaller" installed with a caller ID, and "block spam numbers" feature. It seem to work just fine.
You didn't get it. If one does not PAY for service that enables caller ID, one has absolutely no way of knowing what number is calling. The phone company just says "If you want to screen junk calls, just pay us some more money, and well enable you to identify them." It's a protection racket. Pay us for Caller ID, or we'll let the calls through unidentified.
My company has a flat rate that includes caller ID.
It's cheaper than any cellphone plan, and it provides all the services I need, since my life doesn't revolve around being in phone contact with anybody. Everyone I know has unlimited LD, so I just tell them to call me back.
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Originally Posted by suzy_q2010
My company has a flat rate that includes caller ID.
Your flat rate is higher than my standard rate, so you are paying for the Caller ID. I have LifeLine, and subscribers with features (such as Caller ID) are not eligible for the discount. So my landline costs me $10.28 s month with unlimited local, and my LD plan is 2.7c a minute, 7c a minute to Europe.
Just don't answer. Can't your program your mothers..fathers...best friend sean number. So if a random number calls don't even pay attention. If someone truly needs you they will leave a message.
That's what I did for our home phone (cell phone). It rings one ring if someone on my list is calling, and a different ring if someone I don't have programmed in calls. I miss the occasional call from doctors/vets, etc, but they always leave a message. Saves me from having to go look at the phone every time it rings.
Doesn't help at work though, I still get at least 2 or 3 and sometimes as many as 10 spam calls a day at the office. Each call doesn't take very long to get rid of, but each one interrupts what I was working on.
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