Cold Call Blocker

Just beware

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2612056/Beware-bogus-TPS-calls-promising-protection-nuisance-calls.html

We rent our landline through BT but our calls are routed via another provider. We are rarely affected by nuisance calls but I'm very glad that the BT scheme is now up and running....the downside is that BT prices are now going up!! 

I presume we would not be able to get it.  We were with BT till just over a year ago but now we are with SSE, though they use BT lines.

 We pay only SSE for landline and broadband, and have no call package or caller display, though our phone can handle caller display as we used to have it with BT.

Our "cold calls" seem to come in chunks, a lot for a few weeks then none for a few weeks.  We are in a no calls period at present.

We had the scammers trying to sell us the cold call thingy Oneputt referred to.

We have 'TalkTalk' calling us most days at the moment......a 'problem with our internet connection'.

They can quote our account number, so I assume they are the ones who hacked TalkTalk a while ago.

TalkTalk take no interest in the matter when we tell them.

I signed up on the Telephone Preference Service a few years ago & rarely get any cold calls, except for those from energy companies we're with, or others we've bought stuff from before trying to sell us something new.  I always tell them I'm not interested & put the phone down.  In fact, the more they contact me to sell me something, the more determined I am to not want it 

Talk Talk - I am so glad I left them not long after the hacking - so much less hassle from PlusNet - and if anyone thinks of changing - cite their security as your reason and be firm that you are not paying any exit fees. 

My mum, who is 90, was forever getting calls, and sometimes no one was there.  But she did say that in the last month or so, she's had no calls whatsoever.  So that's good