Nuisance calls, a new UK record?

We have a BT 8600 phone, it's brilliant. We've had it about a year now and it's stopped ALL of the 4-5 marketing calls we used to get per day. Best £40 I've ever spent. Google them and find out for yourself. Easy to set up and use too.

We rarely get nuisance calls on our landline (but I rarely divulge the number to anyone who might potentially use it for marketing purposes) and we absolutely NEVER answer calls from numbers that we don't recognise.  Occasionally this leads to problems, because we've had calls from relatives and other people that we don't have saved to our phone, but anyone calling for a genuine reason will leave a message so that you can call them back.  Unwanted callers will just hang up.

Similarly, I never answer unrecognised numbers on my mobile - and so far have probably avoided a couple of hundred PPI calls, several dozen from 'Injury Lawyers for You', lots from double glazing salesmen, and Solar Panels companies, and potentially perhaps one call from a person I might have wanted to talk to - who as expected left me a message to ring them back.

I've set my mobile up for my listed numbers, people I want to speak to - not that I hand out my number much! to one ring and so anything that doesn't use that ringtone isn't wanted. Don't even have to look at the phone . We've had the same landline number for thirty years always been ex dir rarely get nusicance calls thankfully. To get cheaper broadband wed have to change our number so were told

EasyT, you seem somewhat disapointed that you are not getting these calls. Let us know your number and we will cure that for you.

Nooo. Not dissapointed at all. Some 11 or 12 years ago, before OH moved in with me we either weekended at her place or at mine. Either way I normally cooked. I oftened worked 11.5 hour days (and had lots of leave) but most Fridays I would get to her place by 5 pm and have a meal ready for her by about 6.30 as she was usually home just before. Her phone used to ring 3 or 4 times whilst I was getting the meal ready with such calls. No idea why I escape even though I have been ex-directory for a long time and always on my present number. 

We get calls for Talk Talk on a regular basis for some reason but we dont deal with them and i get a regular stream of letters from Saga and as far as i can remember i,ve never had any business with them

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My mobile has had the same number for the past 13 years. I am still getting marketing calls for some bloke called Neil Fay. 

Write your comments here...CY, if you go into the phone's settings, does it have a black list facility? If yes you can put the number in the black list and you won't hear from it again.

Different organisations each time, although I've been telling them to take it off their out of date database.

Apparently 'new' telephone numbers are about exhausted so telephone companies are having to re-cycle old numbers so it's possible that any phone number allocated to your new phone will have been used by somebody else previously. If they have recorded it in their personal details somewhere then it's likely to be sold on to the nuisance callers and you may then get a call asking for some unknown person.

Like I said, I've had the number for 13 years, so any data being used is hopelessly old.