Not sure where you are supposed to put posts about non mobile phones ! But anyway. . . . . . . .


Few people i know have had this happen, calls on the landline from withheld numbers, and when you pick up they just hang up. This happen to anyone else?

Possibly some silly computer calling people.

you can sign up to the Telephone Prefernce Service.

If that doesn't stop the calls, then you can call your telephone service provider to request that Annonymous Caller Rejection is put on your line.

on NTL, ACR is free, I believe that BT charge £1.50 for it?

its 3.33 a month with BT, i think

You can register with a service called the "Silent Callguard Service" (I believe it's free).

Details here: http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/cgi-bin/...s&s=tps&item=2.

VERY bad idea. Considering that many (if not all - all the sensible ones anyway!) GPs have their numbers witheld. While they can dial a number to stop this (141 I think), it sort of defeats the object of having it in the first place (which is so that members of the public do not find out the doctors home number and call them instead of going through the normal phone ways), hospitals (and all other telephone business system things) cannot do this.

jack

I work for an organisation that has to withhold our numbers. We have to call members of the public and we have a prefix to put in front of there number if theres doesn't accept withheld numbers. I believe a random number is generated so that it allows us to call, but if you tried to ring the number back it wouldn't be recognised....

Surely faking CLI isn't allowed by Ofcom?

I got a call from something like 65410, i was very confused, and was scared to answer it!

but i did, and was newspaper company, calling to ask why u hadn't delivered a paper!

It would not be a 'faked' number, it would be a number esablished by the company and the telecoms provider. More than likly the company would have Cable and wireless or some company like that as there dominant provider and have several lines with BT, which they just pick up the phone input a code to access one of the lines.

Our organisation does it to.