Unwanted telephona calls - Sudden incease..

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Sudden INCREASE! :o
Before I start going ape **** at someone. Is there anything "free" I can do to stop these calls?
It's gone from the occasional one to seven or eight a day and I am sick to the ****ing back teeth of it now!

Was about to go onto BT site and order a few "extras" in my package so I can block/filter them but thought I'd ask here first before I go spending cash on it..

Already member of TPS and have been years and years. (joke site if you ask me, doesn't seem to do anything or help in any way)

I am somewhat aggrieved at the prospect of having to up the cost of my own phone package to prevent these calls. :mad:
 
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Ahh problem.. anything I change to my calling plan on BT site is subject to a new 12 month contract... So when my fibre line goes live I wouldn't be able to transfer the phone line over to that if I changed any calling plan now..
I might have to suffer it for a month or two (Fibre is supposed to be going live before Christmas) if there are no options outside the BT arena of doing anything about it.
I don't have caller ID so I can't see who's calling :mad:
 
Ive been unregistered at home for 20 years and I get hardly any on the home number, maybe 5 or 6 a year and they tend to be related to another company I have transacted with so I simply tell them don't call again. I did have some wine company trying to get me invest, Anderson Goldberg or something similar and they became rude but I got them to go away. My works mobile however....jesus, I must block 10 a week.
 
You have to register with TPS every year and even then it is overruled if you've given your number to a company directly.
 
Bloody annoying, especially if you are waiting for an important call. I just let the answerphone deal with calls now.
 
I recently got subjected to a swathe of PPI and injury compensation calls. Managed to get them stopped with a little confrontation.

Basically when they call you, refuse whatever offer, and then wait for them to say something like "OK I'll update your records now". When they say that, insist that they provide the full name and address of the company which was holding the "record" on you which they just "updated". Don't get personal with the operator though, make sure you say you don't have anything against him/her and that all you want is the company where your "record" is held.

He tried to get out of it but I told him look mate you've just told me you've updated a "record" you have of me, I need to know exactly what you've updated and where it was updated.

Haven't had a call since then.
 
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EVH said:
You have to register with TPS every year and even then it is overruled if you've given your number to a company directly.
Click to expand...

If a company wishes to cold call they must, by law, consult the TPS and if your number is on there they shouldn't be calling you. It does change though if you have missed the tick box to not be contacted (or to opt out, read the small print carefully, sometimes it's opt in, sometimes opt out!) then the company can phone you as you've given that company permission.

Companies have been fined by the ICO in the past. http://news.sky.com/story/1561373/cold-call-company-hit-with-record-200000-fine

You also don't need to register with the TPS yearly, only once.
 
Is it to do with you not telling the council when you register to vote that you don't want to be on their open register?

We had to opt out by contacting the council here in Bristol, as they put you on the open register by default. They didn't make that clear on the voter registration forms though.

I can't speak for other councils, but wonder if it's that. Sorry if I'm not making sense!

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/en/uksi/2013/3198/schedule/3/chapter/2/made
 
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