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wonko3fc
Verbum sat sapienti

join:2001-06-02
UK
·BT Broadband


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reply to Dude111
Re: To all mobile phone users (URGENT)

To Plagiarise Money Saving Expert:
A new directory enquiries service, 118 800, has launched charging a shocking £1 per search for mobile numbers. This means if people want to contact you via it they can (they pay £1) it won't give out your number but will send a text to you with that persons details. more here: »forums.moneysavingexpert.com/sho···22515361

Follow this link to un-subscribe: »www.118800.co.uk/removeme/remove.html

However, by default, you will be populating the database if not already on there, making their data far more valuable! Catch 22 if ever there was one.

For unsolicited marketing calls, then use the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) register here:
»www.tpsonline.org.uk/ctps/number_type.html

TPS has sister services FPS and MPS (dig about on the site)

In my experience, this cuts out 99% of all unsolicited calls, faxes and Mail shots. Of the odd 1% that does get through, just reference TPS and watch how fast they hang up!

Pjr

join:2005-12-11
UK


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TPS is exellent. It's cut our number of sales calls dramatically.

There's only one which gets through and that's BT. We're with BT but don't want to hear their sales spiel so I've reported them to the TPS for making unsolicited marketing calls. I don't suppose anything will happen but if they keep calling I'll keep reporting

This is how to deal with BT though »[NWS] How do YOU deal with telemarketers?

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said by Random fortune from 'bofh-excuses' :

We ran out of dial tone and we're and waiting for the phone company to deliver another bottle.
That came up when I made my last edit but I think it was stolen from the book of BT's random excuses.
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