866-697-3405

Had a few calls from this number with no one introducing themselves - just dead air.
Called the number back and found out that it is from Videotron Cable Company in Quebec which made sense as I am in the process of setting up a subscription to their services.

exact vidéotron moi aussi normal javais laissé un message sur internet leur demandant d'adhérer au trio illico !!!!! lol

Thanks Guys! I was freaking out. They kept calling me 5 times a day during a month...

Good to know...I've been getting these annoying calls too.

same here!
videotron. what a weird service to have a sub company call you and leave a dead line as an answer!!

I have a Vonage number and received a call displayed as ...

01118666973405

I use cable service.

In fact, this is common with most companies using automated dialers to call clients. The dead air is only temporary and an agent should come online after a couple of seconds. as there are many mentions about this and also the fact that most "dead" calls come from the synergie office, i have gone ahead and reported this to our dedicated team. Thank you everyone.

Dead air is always a clue it's a solicitation of some sort.  It means HANG UP before they have a chance to speak.

There is no agent waiting - the calls actually get dropped from the Videotron end after 10 or 20 seconds.  I can only assume that they are using their own phone-over-cable technology, and it fails when it tries to connect to my cell phone network.

I'm glad I'm only trying to sign up for their television service...

Got call from 866-697-3405 and a woman was singing a middle-eastern type of song. I kept saying "hello" and after her song she said "yes, madam" and the line became dead. It is so creepy.

Working in a company which make dialer software/hardware, i can tell you that the dialer automatically hang up after a few seconds (15) if there is no agent available to take the call. That only happens if they have a predictive dialer software which start to call before an agent is free in prediction that one should be free in a few seconds.

They must be using a very bad algorithm of predictive dialing :)

Got many calls  . I am on videotron cable nerwork.I am cheesed off.

ask for mr. asked if i (mrs)spoke french and then started selling speel i dropped the call before he had a chance

I answer and nobody speaks, so I hang up. Not a very effective system!

thanks a lot  i had forgotten they did call some time before to sell something.

6 appels en 2 jours. Personne ne répond lorsque je décroche et si j'attends un peu, sans décrocher, j'ai un message inaudible  sur la boîte vocaleavant que la ligne coupe

annoying call ...just dead air.  I have better things to do with my time.

Il appelle à l'occasion, se rend à ma boîte vocale et ne laisse aucun
message. Très frustrant!

was going to try videotron phone but after these annoying calls I think I will change my mind

Je ne me suis jamais inscrite à Vidéotron. Pourtant, je reçois aussi des appels sur mon cell. Il n'y a pas de messages laissés dans la boîte vocale, mais à chaque fois que j'écoute des messages de silence, faut que je paie pour rien! Le numéro retracé est : 1-866-697-3405. Je n'ai pas l'intention de rappeler inutilement, si d'après les blogues, c'est sans issu.

Cependant, il y a-t-il quelqu'un qui sait s'il est possible de bloquer à vie ce numéro par recours collectif ou quelque chose du genre? J'ai appelé mon fournisseur de téléphone cellulaire, mais celui-ci m'a dit qu'il ne peut rien faire.