Cold caller - you tell me first...

prowla

Not ranting, just chatting...

(Helps pass the time... )

ValHaller

Snap-ant wrote: »

Last week I was plagued every evening around 9pm with 'International Number Unavailable' calls (approx 3 per night)
I never answered them.
On Sunday night I decided to answer the third time as by this time I was tamping.
I pressed answer button but left phone on side. I could hear a voice saying 'she's still not in.' & then they hung up.

:eek::eek: It was my Father :eek: Calling from his holiday abroad :o:o

The display of 'International Number Unavailable' is the cause of a lot of grief.

Technically, the infrastructure is in place to provide a caller display from much of the world - and the information arrives on our own shores. It is stripped out because our regulators have decided to protect the anonymity of foreign callers who might not have the means to make their call anonymous.

Well, if the foreign systems do not have the facility for anonymisation, then that is a problem of their systems. We should still display the number and done with it. At least it would not hand an advantage to offshore calls for spamming.

*Scarlett

phill99 wrote: »

Is this a new word?

Sorry made a typo. It looked a bit funny when I wrote it but I'm sure people knew what I meant.

Maestro.

They set themselves up for me when I get a call on my mobile and they ask if its me they're speaking to, or can they speak to Mr X. My reply is "we'll this is my phone" and by that time I know it's a sales call.