BT's *227# withheld number blocking facility

forgotmyname

2006, 2009, 2011??? where will it end? lol

PAY and as the previous poster mentioned it doesnt work on ALL calls.

I cancelled it and got a refund.

Buzby

It remains a chargeable service, and works with all callers who WITHHOLD their number. Calls that arrive that have no number (as opposed to those explicitly Withheld) due to arriving from overseas, or being manipulated by a telco/caller will be delivered.

joaniemerc

Great, thanks.

mhg_2

If a landline phone can 'read' the number or absence of a number on an incoming call, some electronic wizard should be able to design and market a device to go between the socket and phone to read that incoming call info and allow the user to enter simple logic instructions. For instance, 'if [incoming call number] does not start with [00] or [01] or [etc], then [do not allow ring] and [terminate/block call]'.

This would be an ideal business start up opportuntiy for an ex-BT or ex-Marconi engineer with the potential to become a millionnaire. Either 20 million machines will be sold in the UK to households (or BT would buy him/her out to suppress the sale of the machines).

Please discuss this idea with others in the hope that an entrepreneurial engineer will pick up the idea. The market is growing every week with increased nuisance calls and no help from BT. There will be plenty of people around to provide free help with a business plan and access to working capital.:beer:

Quentin

There are devices available now that do this! Google call blockers.

(Paying BT for blocking "withheld numbers" only works when the caller has deliberately withheld, rather than phoned from abroad - so scam callers from abroad still get through, (you get "we do not have the callers number" via 1471 rather than "the caller withheld their number").

HawkeyeF1

I purchased a unit from a Company called "trueCall" it is a little expensive, but haven't had a cold call since.

Ian

Stompa

What I don't understand is why nobody seems to have produced a DECT phone with these sort of call blocking features built in. It seems the obvious solution, as the phone has a display and keypad which would surely make it easy to manage than a separate device.

Jemma-T

Stompa wrote: »

What I don't understand is why nobody seems to have produced a DECT phone with these sort of call blocking features built in.

Block as many people as you like https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3871687

diamonds

^ I just added cheap Panasonic links on Amazon to the above link, twin set under £30 Amazon Direct FREE delivery

Stompa

Jemma-T wrote: »

Block as many people as you like https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3871687

Thanks, I was a bit sloppy with my terminology there. What I really meant was trueCall like functionality built-in. Unfortunately my Panasonic DECTs don't appear to support call blocking either.