Thank goodness for call block

Posted on February 27, 2003 by Gene

The national “Do Not Call” registry goes into operation in September, and telemarketers are beginning to worry – they say that it will devastate their industry.
The amusing thing is that when the debate began over this nationalized list, telemarketers insisted that most people like to get the unsolicited calls! Well, if people want the calls, they won’t sign up for the do not call list, and the industry will go on as usual, right? Get real. No one likes these calls, and the telemarketers, who have built an industry on annoying the hell out of people, will just have to deal with it.
And a personal little complaint – when are the telemarketers going to reimburse me for the cost of their calls to my cell phone? Or for the monthly cost of the call block service to keep them from calling me?
Oh, and one more thing – who’s laughing all the way to the bank? The big phone companies, who sit in the middle like arms dealers who sell to both sides. They give telemarketers all the phone numbers. Then they charge individuals monthly fees to NOT give out their phone number. They give individuals Caller ID. Then they give telemarketers anonymous calling. Then they sell individuals call block. Where does it end?