cinnamon_girl – Member
deadkenny – do you honestly believe ‘companies’ consult lists before phoning? TPS is powerless to stop random generated dialling where we’re subjected to silent calls.
Genuine companies in the UK absolutely do. They filter the lists. If they don’t they are breaking the law, you can report them and they do get fined (have reported a number of them and subsequently seen they have been fined).
It doesn’t stop the illegal ones, but they tend to operate from overseas numbers. But with care you can get removed from lists by just being dead. i.e. don’t answer those numbers.
Silent calls are now covered by TPS so long as they are sales calls. Marketing and survey calls are not covered and some companies try to get around this by starting with a survey then pass onto a seller, but you can still report them for this.
Aside from that you can report nuisance repeat offenders to Ofcom and they can and do fine those companies.
http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/news2.html
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/advice-for-consumers/problems/tackling-nuisance-calls-and-messages/abandoned-and-silent-calls
Trust me, I’ve cleared my phone over time of virtually all these calls through TPS, not answering unidentified numbers (but leave it to the answer machine), and being careful what I tick and who I give the number to. I used to get loads. Got to a point of literally a dozen a day from a few companies (KwikFit worst offender).