TalkTalk to charge for blocking anonymous calls - MSE News

Literally just about swelling profits and maintaining them. Phone companies, gas, electricity, water, house builders, they are all guilty of it. Only interest in making enough to pay the directors millions in bonuses.

I moved away from Talk Talk and have barely had one nuisance call since. With Talk Talk I had them almost daily. Talk Talk's number range appears to be targetted.

Ian011 wrote: »

This is a service that almost nobody needs. Blocking anonymous calls is NOT the solution to avoiding nuisance calls.

Charging £2.00 per month for blocking anonymous calls sounds like a way to recover revenue lost when Ofcom banned charges for caller line identity information display. This took effect on 1 October 2018.

TalkTalk has an effective call blocking mechanism in their Call Safe product. This works much the same as trueCall devices but is built directly into the telephone network itself.

Does anyone know why services like caller ID, answerphone, anonymous call blocking, call waiting, 3 way calling are chargeable service on Landlines in the first place since mobile phone/ VOIP services don't charge for them is it a direct wholesale cost or is a way to reduce the advertised price?

LadyDee wrote: »

Even simpler, don't answer the phone to unrecognised numbers. Answer it once, and your number is recognised as being "live" and will be added to another list to be sold on to the next lot of would-be scammers.

The problem is that too many official bodies have withheld or unavailable number due to switchboards.

So unless you only give your phone number to people you know and you know the telephone number they will ring you on thats not a practical option.

Then some of these scammers call also use spoofed caller IDs which could even be a local number.

Blocking "anonymous" calls (i.e. those with CLI withheld) is a dangerous and largely ineffective way of blocking nuisance calls.
In the case of Talk Talk, the "Call Safe" facility is far more effective, as it covers all unrecognised callers and avoids the danger of important and other wanted calls being blocked.


The fair telecoms campaign has long been fighting the absurd suggestion that there is any meaningful difference between an un-recognised number and no number at all when it comes to filtering incoming calls.
"Call Safe", a network implementation of the functionality of the trueCall device, is the approach which all telephone service providers (landline and mobile) should be offering as a feature to all of their customers.