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Old 20-09-2016, 17:20
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This is very positive news, I hope the other networks follow suit.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09...ks_scam_calls/

Vodafone blocked 425,000 nuisance and scam calls in a single day, while testing new call-barring technology for its UK mobile network.

And during a week of tests, nuisance and fraudulent call attempts plummeted to less than 1000 as the bad guys realised that Vodafone could and would block their calls.

Success. The new, unspecified technology has now gone live, meaning that most Voda UK customers are now protected - mostly - from bogus PPI offers, missed call or expensive numbers to ring for bogus offers and prizes at source before they get through to customers.
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Old 20-09-2016, 17:35
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A great development, and shows it can be done.
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Old 20-09-2016, 17:58
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Only see this as a good thing, and kudos to Vodafone in setting the bar.
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Old 20-09-2016, 20:53
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Agreed, they need to block texts from non numbers where you can't reply stop, you can't opt out and you can't report them to anyone for SMS spam.

It must be very easy to pick out bulk SMS messages with things like PPI in too, I'd like to see all operators start blocking, I hope Three and others implement this too.
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Old 20-09-2016, 21:01
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I didn't even know they started doing this, either its a positive move and I hope the others follow suit. What would be nice is a central database that all networks could access and thus filter, still this is a very good start.
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Old 20-09-2016, 21:16
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INteresting to learn more about this.... Generally speaking this is good for the end user, of course the danger comes in the fact it's a kind of censorship...

I guess I'd rather like it to be more like gmail where I have a spam folder and can still look periodically at what I was protected from?
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Old 20-09-2016, 21:58
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Either that or at least be able to opt out, although if it's purely scams and bulk unsolicited calls and texts I'd be glad of it. Vodafone have an extra selling point now.
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