Versus Law - cold calls from India
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Wouldn't the solution be to not have a phone plugged in? My situation is identical and only have a landline for broadband. I just don't plug a phone in as, like you, no one has my number and everything is conducted by my mobile.
Yep, would be the easiest way to start fixing the problem.
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get a whistle and blow it down the phone next time.
Last time I tried that they disabled the service. I'm assuming that if no phone is connected for a prolonged period or calls made/received they assume the property is no longer occupied and disable the line.
Got re-connected but with a different number as my old number was transferred to another line/property. It's all a bit confusing because I received no correspondance enquiring whether or not I still required the line, the line rental bills just stopped coming.
We haven't experienced that sort of disconnection. We only have the landline for broadband (and line rental is part of the overall charge) and haven't plugged a landline in for a couple of years. Had to plug one in the other day when O2 were having their issues, it was fine. Might not be the case if your broadband isn't BT I guess but here its not been an issue.
No broadband on my line, only options out here are satellite or Mobile Broadband. As I said in my post further up the thread, I only keep the landline in the hope Broadband will eventually become available. My exchange is currently being upgraded to fibre and apparently my cab is on the list to be enabled so once that's completed I should get a service, here's hoping anyway.
Ah my bad, I thought you had another use for it as well. I didn't read thoroughly!
No worries Collider, most people are surprised when I tell them I still don't have fixed line broadband, but what do they expect? this is the freaking wilds man!
No worries Collider, most people are surprised when I tell them I still don't have fixed line broadband, but what do they expect? this is the freaking wilds man!
There must be mammoths!
Same with me and the phone line I had activated by Sky three years ago.
I was getting tons of cold calls and attempted faxes but put it down to it just being London. I registered with the TPS and that stopped most UK calls. I mostly just get Indian based cold calls now. I still get the odd UK call from somebody who has used the yellow pages or a listing, turns out it used to belong to a discount store not too far away from me, so people phone asking for things. I had to tell every listing site I could find on google to remove the number.
I mostly just leave the phone on answer, since I don't use it anyway.
Yeah, I've got one as a pet! Marlin! He's good company out here in the wilds, bloody nightmare when he jumps on my lap though!
I was until recently, along with automated loft insulation calls. TPS doesn't officially cover them, by the way. It only officially covers live calls, person to person.
After many such calls that I left to my answerphone, I picked up and pressed the button to speak to someone. I cut them off as soon as they started their annoying drivel and informed them that I had had enough of being woken up while on shift work and that if the company they worked for(*) phoned me even just once again I would take whatever action was necessary to stop it, starting with a complaint to the TPS and reporting them for making nuisance phone calls. I also made it very clear that I would never under any circumstances buy anything of any kind from that company, ever, not even if they were selling genuine £20 notes for £10 each, because they had annoyed me so much.
No calls since, not from any of the companies that were plaguing me. Maybe the scumbags communicate with each other. There's no profit to be had in calling me and they know it, so any further calls would definitely be nuisance calls and harassment.
* Phrased that way to make it clear that I wasn't talking about the person on the phone. Although I regard cold sales callers as half a step up from someone who goes around peeing through letterboxes just to annoy random strangers, it's the companies that employ them that are the real problem.
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We're on Virgin at home and have been plagued with sales calls from overseas, presumably emanating from India judging by the accents of those making the calls. Most of the time they phoned while we were out at work and they never bothered leaving a message. The odd times I did answer, I got increasingly irate, telling them quite frankly to **** off and **** off - utterly useless as a tactic, but made me feel better 
Now we've just said "sod it" and unplugged the landline and used our mobiles instead. However, I will be plugging the landline back in when I next need to call an 08xx number like my bank First Direct, as I'm getting brassed off with Vodafone charging me extra!
Now we've just said "sod it" and unplugged the landline and used our mobiles instead. However, I will be plugging the landline back in when I next need to call an 08xx number like my bank First Direct, as I'm getting brassed off with Vodafone charging me extra!