Thread: Home landline and Mobile phone

Good move. I have a $20 a month Woolworths pre-paid for similar reasons.

Hi,
Telstra have a phone set that is based on Qualtel technology. It filters your calls with a message asking who is calling. If nothing is heard it hangs up. If it detects a voice, the phone rings and you hear the answer.
Now you have 3 options.
1) Block the number.
2) Answer it this time once.
3) Put the number on a white list so it is not filtered any more.
The phone comes with 1 master phone and as many slaves as you want.
Only the master has the option of editing the filter.

Note, the above is my recollection of what I read, it may well be wrong.

Cheers

We finally switched to NBN on 12 Feb. hasn’t worked for more than a few minutes at a time since. Telstra are unbelievable. Long waits, get told I have to wait to have it monitored as “not working to expected level” - too right as it is not working.

Twice I have had return calls at 4.30am abs 4.45am - obviously can’t tell in India if WA has a different time to east coast.

The problem is that blocking numbers is useless. Your phone has no way of knowing who is calling. Call display is not a trace. It is just a number sent by the caller and can be made to be anything. All of these robo calls are from countries without any telecom rules. They are not domestic calls.

Originally Posted by EastFreo

We finally switched to NBN on 12 Feb. hasn’t worked for more than a few minutes at a time since. Telstra are unbelievable. Long waits, get told I have to wait to have it monitored as “not working to expected level” - too right as it is not working.

Twice I have had return calls at 4.30am abs 4.45am - obviously can’t tell in India if WA has a different time to east coast.

Does unplugging and restarting it help?
Make sure Telstra is actually logging your complaints. Optus didn't for us so there was no record of our complaints.
Ours was only fixed when NBN sent a technician to fix the whole street.

Telstra are unbelievable. Long waits,

Not surprising when they keep cutting staff & offering huge redundancy payouts, of course the lazy bastids will **** off.
A cable fault here resulted in a 2 week wait when all they knew they had to do was sling a new length of cable up. Many mobile calls later to find out why & when.


"Too high mate, gotta arrange for a Cherry picker" & more bull****e.

When a Can Do tech arrived, he had it fixed in 3/4 hour using an "olde fashioned extension ladder" type thing. WOW!


Some of them from the sub continent are bloody useless.

Originally Posted by Red90

The problem is that blocking numbers is useless. Your phone has no way of knowing who is calling. Call display is not a trace. It is just a number sent by the caller and can be made to be anything. All of these robo calls are from countries without any telecom rules. They are not domestic calls.

Hi,
Marketers usually hangup if they face a filtering system like Qualtel.
You only answer the phone to hear and accept/decline on the content of the message.
Cheers

Originally Posted by Fatso

unless anyone knows of a way to stop these robo and nuisance calls

Download an app called "Who Called Me". For mobile phones only. (Who still uses a land line?)

It's a real-time database of dodgy numbers. Your phone will intercept the call and either let it keep ringing or it will hang-up on them.

If they do get through you then mark it as dodgy and next time they call they are dealt with accordingly.

It's a community growth app. The database grows with the number of users and amount of reporting.

The downside is some people have mistakenly registered legit numbers as dodgy and you then have to call them back. (Somehow my bank was on the dodgy list but I still received a call register therefore able to call back)

Great app and filters all the brown you don't want.