Cold call firms flaunt rules that block telemarketers [telecom]

It is the scourge of the dinner hour. The cold call from a telemarketer just as the family is sitting down to eat. But secret filming by the BBC's Panorama programme found that some firms are not just bending the rules meant to protect people, they are tearing up the rule book entirely.

Tony Clark's home phone number is ex-directory. The 64-year-old has also signed up to a scheme designed to block most cold calls from telemarketing firms - known as the Telephone Preference Service.

The problem is that the calls just keep coming - and coming.

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Posted 5 years ago by Joseph Singer in General Telecommunications Forum

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