A friend had anonymous call rejection or whatever it's called, and no voicemail, or at least you couldn't get to it if you didn't unblock the caller ID.
Guess what? On my portable phone, you evidently can't DO unblocking on an individual call. Consequently I couldn't call her.
But guess what? Her Mother has a phone. Problem solved.
You guys complain about telemarketers doing all this anonymous calling. Well there are various ways to get your number, and caller ID is one of them (I'm NOT talking about toll-free calls and ANI).
I'm basically against the caller ID technology. Period.
1.Phone company creates problem (ooh, you don't know [bfd] who's calling until you answer!!)
2.Phone company makes you pay for solution (Caller ID)
3.In creating this solution, phone company creates create another problem for you (every company you call can capture your phone #), which they may sell you or be required to offer. (Caller ID blockeing)
4. Phone company then sells you another solution (anonymous call rejection).
I think this is what you call a vicious cycle.
Telemarketers are not that big a problem for me, maybe because I block ID on regular calls.
I have yet to get a single telemarketer call me on my cell phone. Maybe that's because I seldom use it to call 800 numbers - why waste my valuable airtime when there area payphones, most of which still let you call toll-free numbers.
The ones I do get at home, I've only had one that was truly a problem, & that was an outfit that was an 'affiliate' of Montgomery Wards.
They basically ignored all my requests to take me off their call list. And I guess they're gone now, anyway.