How do I block anonymous calls? help please

Posts: 508 · Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 9:21 pm Post subject:

Trowski wrote:

I nominate dabones as the best post of the day. Very Happy

LoL.. sometimes I do come up with a good one..
well crap, it makes sense, if it's a "highly requested feature" then why don't they work on it.. from what other posts have said that the RT31P2 can handle it, I'm sure the new RTP300 can too, why don't they 'enable' it for those of us with adaptors that support it.. Question

I guess we're beating a dead horse considering the number of requests here and at Vonage itself (thanks jhall376)..

Rolling Eyes

Posts: 1389 · Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:15 am Post subject:

True again...

Posts: 31 · Vonage Forum Junior Joined: Jul 18, 2004 Posts: 31

Yes would be a great feature and pretty much from what I seen is a standard feature on most Voip companies, Vonage used to be the leader but I think they are slipping fast.

Vonage was in the press about them being the first for wifi phones way back in Jan 05 and now other companies not only have ACR, call blocking, wifi phones Vonage hasn't got any of that out yet.

I liked Vonage and they used to add new features before others did and they were doing great. Hope things start coming out soon cause with more features, more local calling to other countries, wifi access, and even cheaper, I have been thinking about jumping ship.

Posts: 233 · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 5:03 pm Post subject:

Here is a stop gap for sales calls until Vonage learns that we all want ACR:

(1) Get blanks for the gun of your choice, load the blanks in the gun, and sit it by the phone.
(2) When the sales person calls listen a moment and then politely ask them to hold while you handle a problem.
(3) Start yelling as if you are telling someone to leave you alone for the last time.
(4) Have someone in your house scream.
(5) Fire the gun.
(6) Drop the phone.
(7) Wait 30 seconds and hang up.

Works every time.

Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: May 11, 2007 Posts: 1

Just press *77 to block anonymous or private calls and to disable the feature, press *87. Idea

Posts: 1327 · Vonage Forum **MVM** Joined: Nov 08, 2006 Posts: 1327

Anonymous Call Blocking works when a caller has used the feature *67 (block caller ID) or some government and doctors have this featured enabled. When it comes up as private caller and you have ACB enabled then the person calling gets a message stating that the person you are calling doesn't accept calls from Private Callers, please hang up and disable your caller ID block and try your call again. This feature doesn't work for unknown caller or unknown number.

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

2-year old thread. Sad

Posts: 1327 · Vonage Forum **MVM** Joined: Nov 08, 2006 Posts: 1327

Just noticed that, guess it was a long time coming.

Posts: 3 · New Forum Member Joined: Oct 30, 2006 Posts: 3

Vonage has the Anonymous call block feature now

Dial *77 and press 1 to enable Anonymous Call Block and

Dial *87 and press 1 to disable Anonymous Call Block

This helps to block caller id's that display
1. Anonymous
2. PRIVATE
3. PRIVATE NAME
4. CALLER PRIVATE
5. WITHHELD
6. NUMBER,PRIVATE

Heard that it doesn't block caller id that shows Unknown Caller