Is this possible?

Thriftylady

Is it possible to stop sales calls to your mobile?

I have my landline registered with the telephone preference service and its great, an end to hateful sales calls, but is there anything similar for mobiles? I'm at the point where I get more sales calls on my mobile than I get 'actual' calls and its driving me mad......

Edinburghlass_2

You can add your mobile to the TPS but I'm not sure how effective it is.

Having said that mine is added and I never get any sales calls

5limJim

Thriftylady wrote:

Is it possible to stop sales calls to your mobile?

I have my landline registered with the telephone preference service and its great, an end to hateful sales calls, but is there anything similar for mobiles? I'm at the point where I get more sales calls on my mobile than I get 'actual' calls and its driving me mad......

The only thing I can suggest is only give your number out to anyone who specifically needs it. If its a requirement when signing up to websites, surveys etc, I provide them with a number on one of many free sims. Put the sim in one of my old phones the other day and the amount of SPAM texts and Voicemails I had were unreal, yet none on my normal phone (Which I use for family, friends and an ICE for work etc)

Works for me, though I could just be lucky

Agent47

Virgin mobile don't do sales calls Hoorah! unless you waitign for a phone to come in stock and you request it. *cough* customer service award 5 years running *cough*

Also Virgin are lookign into the abilty to block withheld numbers, and have just started looking into being able to set a call bar for inbound and outbound premium rate numbers / texts that you can enable and disable at your lesiure.

Agent 47:p

Thriftylady

5limJim wrote:

The only thing I can suggest is only give your number out to anyone who specifically needs it.

funny enough I don't ever give my number out - I couldn't even if I wanted to, because for some reason I can never remember it !! I am with 02 and I just assumed that they had sold my number on to other companies or whatever. The calls are always wanting me to buy insurance for my phone, or wanting me to switch from 02 to some other provider that I've never heard of. To be honest, I don't know if its the same company ringing me over and over again or if its different ones - they tend to ring when I'm in work and I just don't have time to get to the bottom of it. I have asked that they take a note that I don't want to be rung but still the calls continue.....every day......the only thing that gives me any peace is that they can't ring me in the evening as there is no 02 coverage where I live, you can hardly even send a text. (Didn't stop Carphone Warehouse selling me the contract in the first place though, and telling me that 02 had total coverage in my area, but thats another story!!)