Member Since: 27 Mar 2008
Location: Wirral, UK
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I give up - no more - landline phone finally unplugged
The number of nuisance calls coming from India and Taiwan is just spiralling out of control - seems to be since Christmas time, rising to about 10 or 12 a day, from 7am onwards. I've tried all the useless "callsafe" functions on TalkTalk, allowing registered number only etc. but none of it works at all (unsurprisingly). I can't think of the last time I actually used the landline, and nobody I actually want to speak to would call me on it, so that's it - unplugged. Gone. I'm going to pack away the various cordless handsets and have done with it.
OFCOM need to get a grip on this problem - the providers should be screening far more of this stuff out. It should be an easy and free option to block international calls if you want to. My mobile phone crowd-sources intel from millions of other users to block spam calls easily and effortlessly. It's not rocket science.
I know you are supposed to have a landline for emergency calls, I think I'll get a hard wired phone for the hallway and snip the ringer on it
I am ashamed at some of the stuff I've said to the foreign callers D4 XS, gone, much loved, never forgotten
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2nd Feb 2021 10:23 am
D1SCD
Member Since: 13 Feb 2013
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 407
How do they get hold of your number ? I must admit, I hardly ever use my landline, but as far as nuisance calls go, I probably get one every six weeks or so.
Maybe I'm just lucky
2nd Feb 2021 10:33 am
pjm-84
Member Since: 04 Oct 2016
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 2432
Got rid off my landline back 2017. Too many nuisance calls and everyone I knew called me on the mobile. Haven't missed not having the landline.
2nd Feb 2021 10:35 am
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Changed to mobiles only after getting back from travelling in March, never looked back. Data via SMARTY 4g which has been brill. It’s da future I tell ya.
If anyone wants a code for a month of free SMARTY unlimited data bung me a PM.
I too have no landline but do have VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) which, for a reasonable subscription, gives me free calls to most of the civilised world - important as I have four close family members & many friends in North America and Australia.
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2nd Feb 2021 10:44 am
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Member Since: 28 Aug 2014
Location: Norfolk
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Very rarely get nuisance calls at home, or on my mobile for that matter. We've always been ex-directory, although I'm not sure that makes any difference these days.
I did start getting a few calls at home when the Charity Commission published my home number, as a trustee you have to give a number. I've fixed that now though.
I'm not sure about giving up the land line. It's ok until the mobile system fails, or the internet fails. I keep an old push button phone to plug into the socket in case the power is off!Richard
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2nd Feb 2021 10:45 am
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I get very few nuisance calls, most seem to be fake Amazon calls. However, I am going to lose the land line phones and just stick with mobiles. We'll keep a land line for Internet only.
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2nd Feb 2021 10:47 am
RATA1
Member Since: 27 Feb 2020
Location: Somerset
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D1SCD wrote:
How do they get hold of your number ?
They use an auto dialler - it dials the STD code then generates calls from say 000000 - 999999 in sequence then presents the call to the "agent" when it rings or you speak.
If you pick up and speak some "know" you are a person so if I do pick up I never say anything and wait for them to say something - usually "Hello?" if it's a genuine caller, else they hang up.
I did port my number from BT to a SIP provider a few years ago and as I generally never answer, I get an email with the messages left. If it is less than a few seconds I condider it is spam so I delete it. If it is longer I listen to it and decide if I want to call back
They use SIP not a fixed line so can spoof their CLI to whatever they want currently and do it from anywhere, anytime so hard to stop as they just move on and/or change their CLI after you block it, then start at 0 again In today's world, if you contribute something, you don't contribute enough. If you contribute nothing, you receive everything.
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2nd Feb 2021 10:58 am
RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
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We can't rely on mobile for phones as the village appears to be the land that time forgot so far as mobile signal is concerned. Get 4G in the fields around the village but almost no signal in the house or in much of the village itself. I can use wifi-calling on my mobile and we will, I think, move to Gigaclear for fibre broadband in the near future (currently with BT on FTTC). At that point we might dump the land line. Having said that, we don't get much in the way of nuisance calls with just the occasional fake Amazon Prime recorded message scam.
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We'll keep a land line for Internet only. It is the way forward
You need to keep the copper line, if you haven't got fibre, but you can still ditch the telephone. You will pay something for the copper pair for internet access probably about £10 per month, as against c. £20 per month for an unused BT telephone line.
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They use SIP not a fixed line so can spoof their CLI to whatever they want currently and do it from anywhere, anytime so hard to stop as they just move on and/or change their CLI after you block it, then start at 0 again
Yup, and their spoofing is managing to replicate "real" mobile numbers rather effectively.
I've had a number of calls where someone has hit call-back on a missed call notionally from my number, but it's not been from me. One lady manning an out-of-hours emergency social care number wouldn't accept that it wasn't me that dialled her and berated me for "hoax calling" and tying up valuable services. I gently pointed out the irony of her persisting in ignoring my explanation of number spoofing and tying up services by yelling at me. Spent another couple of minutes being her "agony ear" as she'd clearly had a bloody tough shift.I know it's not considered "kind" to say no these days, but no. Just no, ok? And if it's not ok, still no.
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I'm seriously thinking about doing this and dumping TalkTalk in the process.
The only issue is I will never be able to stop my dad and SWMBO's dad calling the landline number ... they both randomly swap mobile/landline when calling us.
Is there a way of redirecting a landline number to a mobile then cease the landline ?.
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^^^ Same as Hardware, can't stop the in laws from calling the landline. Also the NHS! Despite having mobile numbers they insist on calling the landline.2013 RR Vogue SE SDV8
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2nd Feb 2021 11:44 am
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Member Since: 05 Mar 2011
Location: chengdu
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mobile only since 1989It is better to have and not need it then need and not have it.
2nd Feb 2021 11:57 am
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Member Since: 12 Aug 2014
Location: Southampton
Posts: 1806
^^ this is my provider for VOIP and they have a forwarding feature.
I just use my landland number now as a voicemail service and any messages come to me in an email but as the years go by less and less need for my £2.40 month subscription Stolen - D4 Loire Blue
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