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Old 01-10-2009, 06:45 PM   #1
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REMEMBER: Cell Phone Numbers Go Public today

REMINDER... all cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies tomorrow and you will start to receive sale calls.



.... YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS



To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone: 888-382-1222.

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Old 01-10-2009, 06:49 PM   #2
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Re: Cell Phone

NOT - Its an Urban Legend

http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/bus..._directory.htm

From the gov: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/cons...ts/alt107.shtm
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  1. What Phone Numbers Can I Register?
  2. Can I register my cell phone on the National Do Not Call Registry?

    Yes, you may place your personal cell phone number on the National Do Not Call Registry. The registry has accepted cell phone numbers since it opened for registrations in June 2003. There is no deadline to register a home or cell phone number on the Registry.
    You may have received an email telling you that your cell phone is about to be assaulted by telemarketing calls as a result of a new cell phone number database; however, that is not the case. FCC regulations prohibit telemarketers from using automated dialers to call cell phone numbers. Automated dialers are standard in the industry, so most telemarketers don’t call consumers on their cell phones without their consent.
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Old 01-10-2009, 07:15 PM   #3
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That's a good website to check for stuff like this. Another, which I think may have seniority, is www.snopes.com.

Now if I could just get the in-laws to use either one...
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Old 01-10-2009, 08:23 PM   #4
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REMEMBER: Cell Phone Numbers Go Public today

REMINDER... all cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies tomorrow and you will start to receive sale calls.



.... YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS



To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone: 888-382-1222.

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Old 01-11-2009, 12:12 PM   #5
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I have free unlimited incoming, It wouldn't have cost me anything even if it was true.
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I have free unlimited incoming, It wouldn't have cost me anything even if it was true.

It's costs you time.............
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Old 01-11-2009, 01:24 PM   #7
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It's costs you time.............
Thats why I never answer my cell unless I know the number or who is calling. If it is a number that I do not recognize I let it go to voice mail. If it's important they'll leave a message for me to call them back,then I will decide if it warrants my time. Caller ID is your friend.
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Old 01-11-2009, 03:33 PM   #8
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I always try to answer my cell phone.
I think it's important for a customer to be able to speak with you. Especially a potential customer the first time they call.
I would rather not leave a message with my subs and I assume my customers feel the same way.
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Old 01-11-2009, 03:37 PM   #9
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I usually answer numbers from surrounding area codes, but others outside of the area get the VM. I had a bad string of "credit repair services" calling me a few weeks ago. Very aggravating.
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Old 01-11-2009, 03:46 PM   #10
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I always try to answer my cell phone.
I think it's important for a customer to be able to speak with you. Especially a potential customer the first time they call.
I would rather not leave a message with my subs and I assume my customers feel the same way.

I agree, but I will not answer calls from area codes I do not know ~ obviously, these type callers are nowhere near my area.

Anything in Northern NJ and NYC [some folks call from work lines ] is answered.
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I got my first cellphone back in 1991; a Motorolla "Brick" (8001M). Back then, wrong numbers were a seriously expensive proposition. Billing was per minute (or portion thereof) and the rates were ridiculous. I was insulating new houses in Calgary, Alberta and was one of the few guys with a handheld cellphone at the time. While it cost a lot of money to have, I was the one getting the calls (and a good share of the work) because the D/W companies I was subbing to could call me when the builders called in houses in the middle of the day...
Obviously I answered it every time it rang...very few people had my number anyways.

The bills averaged $400/month and it was worth every penny...my how times have changed.

When I started seeing every Tom, Dick and Harry carrying cels (around the time the first Motorola 550 flips were coming on the market) I was a happy guy...service prices finally started to get realistic.

Man I feel old...

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I got my first cellphone back in 1991; a Motorolla "Brick" (8001M). Back then, wrong numbers were a seriously expensive proposition. Billing was per minute (or portion thereof) and the rates were ridiculous. I was insulating new houses in Calgary, Alberta and was one of the few guys with a handheld cellphone at the time. While it cost a lot of money to have, I was the one getting the calls (and a good share of the work) because the D/W companies I was subbing to could call me when the builders called in houses in the middle of the day...
Obviously I answered it every time it rang...very few people had my number anyways.

The bills averaged $400/month and it was worth every penny...my how times have changed.

When I started seeing every Tom, Dick and Harry carrying cels (around the time the first Motorola 550 flips were coming on the market) I was a happy guy...service prices finally started to get realistic.

Man I feel old...

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Nah Ron, old would be if you remembered having a non-touch-tone phone in your house.
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Old 01-11-2009, 05:05 PM   #13
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Nah Ron, old would be if you remembered having a non-touch-tone phone in your house.
I guess that seals it then...officially old it is...

Too funny...

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Nah Ron, old would be if you remembered having a non-touch-tone phone in your house.

I guess I qualify, then. We had one of these when I was a kid, and our entire phone number was 5608.
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I guess I qualify, then. We had one of these when I was a kid, and our entire phone number was 5608.
I have my dad's yellow pages ad from 1956 for his excavation company. Small town in south eastern Ohio.
The phone number was just "3 5 8".
And you didn't dial back then, you picked up the phone and the operator said "number please".

Totally Mayberry.
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I have my dad's yellow pages ad from 1956 for his excavation company. Small town in south eastern Ohio.
The phone number was just "3 5 8".
And you didn't dial back then, you picked up the phone and the operator said "number please".

Totally Mayberry.
I do remember five digit dialing...they recently (last summer) made ten digit dialing mandatory here in Alberta...

I guess we're all "growed up" now...

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Has anyone had a 4 party line?
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Has anyone had a 4 party line?
Honestly, I don't recall how many were on our line, but it was party, with a different ring pattern depending on who the call was for.
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Thats the one.
My farming relatives in upstate NY had a party line till the 70's. I never could pick their ring out of the bunch. :-)
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My first cell phone package in 1994 was 60 minutes amonth for $30+. I could only imagine what the overage was.
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