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Tanllan

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Re: Silent call
Reply #15 - Mar 16^th, 2005 at 12:56pm

I take your point, but then I expect large PABXs to be properly managed - my clients' are.
Hence my original comment about using UNAVAILABLE to avoid releasing a number.
And, of course, BT use an 0800 number to a recorded message to address this for many of their outbound calls.
My mother's line and our own home lines (and office for that matter) accept anonymous calls, but with less of a welcome at home

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Hugh Newbie Offline Posts: 25	Re: Silent call Reply #16 - Mar 20^th, 2005 at 11:02pm Quote: Has anyone actually tried to call this 0866 572690 ??? . . . does it actually ring ? It returns NU
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NonGeographicalMan Ex Member	Re: Silent call Reply #17 - Mar 20^th, 2005 at 11:13pm Quote: It returns NU It is pretty easy to present a fictitious CLI if you want to and this is what appears to be happening here.
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Hugh Newbie Offline Posts: 25	Re: Silent call Reply #18 - Mar 23^rd, 2005 at 7:47pm Thats ironic! The tpsonline site states If you have been troubled by calls where the phone rings but on answering there is no one there, you may wish to register your number on the Silent Callgard Service on 0870 4443969.
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NonGeographicalMan Ex Member	Re: Silent call Reply #19 - Mar 23^rd, 2005 at 7:52pm Quote: If you have been troubled by calls where the phone rings but on answering there is no one there, you may wish to register your number on the Silent Callgard Service on 0870 4443969. The TPS have an 0845 number I believe................
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Hugh Newbie Offline Posts: 25	Re: Silent call Reply #20 - Mar 23^rd, 2005 at 7:58pm Yes, the standard registration line is 0845 070 0707, but apparantley you have to pay more to block the silent calls. It doesn't make sense that it is treated differently.
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NonGeographicalMan Ex Member	Re: Silent call Reply #21 - Mar 23^rd, 2005 at 8:06pm Quote: Yes, the standard registration line is 0845 070 0707, but apparantley you have to pay more to block the silent calls. It doesn't make sense that it is treated differently. Since when did anything about the telecoms companies make sense from a consumer perspective
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mikeinnc

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Re: Silent call
Reply #22 - Mar 24^th, 2005 at 3:31am

I do sometimes see a UK caller ID (translated into a stored name) on my US cell phone when I get a call from the UK, so obviously the caller ID does get transferred on an international call? It doesn't appear to be consistent - sometimes it will just show no number.

However, since it works one way, it may work the other. 1-866-xxx-xxxx (866-477-6450) is definitely within the US numbering range of 1-800 numbers (ie toll free calls). So could the silent call be from the USA?

Just a thought Wink

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NonGeographicalMan

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Reply #23 - Mar 24^th, 2005 at 6:39am

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However, since it works one way, it may work the other. 1-866-xxx-xxxx (866-477-6450) is definitely within the US numbering range of 1-800 numbers (ie toll free calls). So could the silent call be from the USA?

Just a thought

Good suggestion Mike. Yes overseas numbers do sometimes get presented on our Caller Display here but again very erratically. For instance a guy who was visiting here from Latvia a number of years ago had his Latvian mobile number come up on my caller display when using it roaming inside the UK. And my uk mobile gets uk CLI's from uk numbers when in Greece, Spain etc, etc.

But most overseas fixed lines that I don't want to hear from are anonymous but obviously they have good reason to be so. However as most silent calls seem to originate from random diallers in the USA (the centre of telesales marketing) then what you suggest about this number probably originating in the USA makes a lot of sense.

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Reply #24 - Mar 24^th, 2005 at 1:40pm

I'm unsure as to whether anyone else has had this experience, but we received a couple of calls about 6 months ago from what seemed to be a call centre. We could hear general chatter in the background but nobody was actually speaking to us.

I put the phone down to cut them off, then picked up the phone a few seconds later, and they were still there Shocked

. Then I replaced the handset for a minute and when I picked up again, they were still there. This went on as I left the phone for longer periods of time. However, through all of this, I was unable to dial any number, even 999.

Anyone know who this may be and why it happened?? ???

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Tanllan Supreme Member Offline Posts: 797 Gender:	Re: Silent call Reply #25 - Mar 24^th, 2005 at 1:43pm On the UK public system the person making the call controls it; after all they are the one paying the bill (save for 080 numbers). So such a wrong number or misdial will seize your line, until the caller clears down.
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Dave Global Moderator Offline Posts: 9,902 Yorkshire Gender:	Re: Silent call Reply #26 - Mar 24^th, 2005 at 2:01pm Quote: On the UK public system the person making the call controls it; after all they are the one paying the bill (save for 080 numbers). So such a wrong number or misdial will seize your line, until the caller clears down. Or until it times out, providing the receiving party puts the handset down.
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Smasher Senior Member Offline Posts: 346 UK	Re: Silent call Reply #27 - Mar 24^th, 2005 at 9:32pm But I was the receiving party and I did put the phone down... for a long time and afterwards they were still there! ???
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Re: Silent call
Reply #28 - Mar 24^th, 2005 at 9:57pm

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But I was the receiving party and I did put the phone down... for a long time and afterwards they were still there! ???

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On the UK public system the person making the call controls it; after all they are the one paying the bill (save for 080 numbers).
So such a wrong number or misdial will seize your line until the caller clears down.

As I said above.

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Dave Global Moderator Offline Posts: 9,902 Yorkshire Gender:	Re: Silent call Reply #29 - Mar 24^th, 2005 at 10:19pm Quote: But I was the receiving party and I did put the phone down... for a long time and afterwards they were still there! ??? I'm sure that's how it works, I don't know how long it is. It is most probably a mobile in someone's pocket.
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