claims that the telemarketers will be allowed to call cell phones within
> the next couple of weeks and advised everyone to add their cell phones
> to the National Do Not Call List.
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I do not know if this is true or not,
> but the way _I_ handled it long ago was to add my cell phone number to
> the 'regular' DND list, without regard to it being a cell phone. In
> other words, I called up the list, and told it to add my number
> xxx-xxx-xxxx to the list without bothering to indicate that it was a
> cell phone number. After all, how is anyone going to know if it is a
> cell phone or a 'regular' number anyway? I believe I read somewhere
> that we were 'not supposed to do that', that the list was for landline
Well, when I first added my phone number to the list it was a landline at my house. I have since transferred that number to a cell phone. I've also "re-entered" the number in the Do Not Call list since then, but it did not ask what kind of phone it was. I also entered my mother's phone number for her while I was there. She's 92 and doesn't really need the aggravation.
Bill Ranck Blacksburg, Va.