Anonymous call rejection

Posts: 1123 · Vonage Forum **MVM** Joined: May 26, 2005 Posts: 1123

Wierd. I've had Vonage for almost 12 months now, and I have NEVER gotten a telemarketer or solicitation call. My experience is that calls usually can be traced somehow back to whatever you have reported it to. Lots of people sell these lists, and that's why if it's not vitally important, I don't give my real number.

Posts: 85 · Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:59 pm Post subject:

I don't give out my real number very often either and have had no telemarketing or out of area callers.

Posts: 276 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Feb 09, 2006 Posts: 276

navydavy2001 wrote:

Wierd. I've had Vonage for almost 12 months now, and I have NEVER gotten a telemarketer or solicitation call. My experience is that calls usually can be traced somehow back to whatever you have reported it to. Lots of people sell these lists, and that's why if it's not vitally important, I don't give my real number.

Well, *69 doesn't help, because it's an unknown number. I'm on do not call lists and never had to worry about these calls while an SBC customer because, as I mentioned earlier, their Privacy Manager completely blocked all private, unknown, and out of area calls. In fact, my phone would never ring. Privacy Manager intercepted them.

Posts: 37 · Vonage Forum Junior Joined: Feb 01, 2006 Posts: 37

navydavy2001 wrote:

Wierd. I've had Vonage for almost 12 months now, and I have NEVER gotten a telemarketer or solicitation call. My experience is that calls usually can be traced somehow back to whatever you have reported it to. Lots of people sell these lists, and that's why if it's not vitally important, I don't give my real number.

You'll only get telemarketers bugging you if you transfer an old number that is already on "ok to harass" list...

Posts: 276 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Feb 09, 2006 Posts: 276

Not true. I transferred my own number that I've had for 8 years, one that was on the "Do not call" list. SBC's Privacy Manager helped a great deal, since as I said, it blocked such numbers from even ringing me.

Since coming to Vonage, which doesn't have such Privacy Manager capabilties, many of these "unknown" or "out of area" calls have resurrected, and it is that which is quite annoying.

Posts: 4 · New Forum Member Joined: Oct 20, 2005 Posts: 4

I called Vonage to cancel my account since i would be switching to packet 8 which offers ACR. The account management agent i spoke to informed me that his manager/supervisor had informed him that ACR would offifically be out by end of 1st quater-end of march. At which point Vonage customers would receive an email on this feature and how to activate it. Packet 8 is still shipping me their adapter and since the service is free for a month, i guess i'll wait and see if this feature will finally be out or if it just another empty promise

Posts: 26 · Vonage Forum Junior Joined: Aug 11, 2005 Posts: 26

mmikki_m wrote:

..... account management agent i spoke to informed me that his manager/supervisor had informed him that ACR would offifically be out by end of 1st quater-end of march.....

Hope the rep you spoke with is right. I cancelled this past week and was told that ACR would be available to "some" customers this year. I understood the "some" part to mean those with certain adapters.

With the cableco's Voip rollouts in high gear, Vonage really needs to get these relatively common features out to subscribers and find some way to differentiate themselves other than price.

Posts: 276 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Feb 09, 2006 Posts: 276

I see that Sunrocket has it as well, along with a couple additional similar features that are pretty cool.

Methinks Vonage is already behind the times in several respects.

Posts: 7 · New Forum Member Joined: Jan 16, 2006 Posts: 7

I was told about the potential of ACR last fall. Now that Comcast digital is available here I may give up and move on..... Mad

Posts: 276 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Feb 09, 2006 Posts: 276

You are, of course, free to go with Comcast and pay twice the price (see my closed thread on this very subject).