NoMoRobo

....not all carriers offer this service.

.... be creative and find a way. (if you cant get nomorobo)

I think the poster was just pointing out that not all can get it. I can't, but I don't get many calls per month, still I bought a call blocker since most are repetitive numbers.

One thing worth mentioning, and I think it's been stated before, is that if your phone provider offers the simultaneous ring feature, also known as Ring Anywhere, Find Me/Follow Me, Group Ring and other similar names you can use NOMOROBO even if your carrier is not on their list.  Just find another carrier on the list and see if their  instructions are similar to yours.  If your carrier offers sequential Call/Line Hunting it's even better because you can setup NOMOROBO and never hear a ring for blocked calls.

Yes an alternative method to nomorobo would be a call blocker (about $40) . If its a cellphone then get a blocking app. Nomorobo is awesome but if you can't get it then think creatively and get a different way of blocking even if its costs you $40.

not everyone can get Nomorobo.  I don't need it - I have a call blocker.

I'm on a fixed income, and I find that using CallerID works very nicely for me. Maybe I should not say this too loud, but since I've been checking for calls from names and numbers I don't recognize, and not answering such calls, the number of such calls that I've received has diminished quite nicely. I still get a few stupid calls, but I don't pick them up. If they keep ringing, I just walk way from my home office desk, take a break, and come back when I'm sure it is all over with.

good for you!

don't ya hate it when people don't take your suggestions in the right spirit.... get uptight, negative and combative just for the heck of it? It's so much easier to accept a good idea in the spirit given and follow through with it. It doesn't make you less in fact it makes you a better person!

I guess it depends on how one interprets a given post.

Exactly Mid.  :)

The FCC has solicited comments about whether landline companies should be required to make simultaneous ringing available so Nomorobo can be activated. (The answer is yes. Please post a comment.) There have been about 4800 comments so far. Most appear to be from phone companies. I haven't read them but I think that is bad. I found the FTC's comment at http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/comment/view?id=60001010801  It contains lots of information that will be interest to people in this discussion.

I'm sorry if my post got some peoples panties in a bunch, that wasn't my intention. For future reference quotation marks are used to represents quoted or spoken language, nowhere in my post did I use the phrase "do nothing".

Excuse me. I guess you failed to notice that this service was built because the FTC had a contest and paid money to the winner?  Is that the sort of  "Sad the private sector has to do what the government won't but that's a different rant."  you were referring to?

Clearly the FTC supports the public outcry to stop the telescammers. The FTC has proposed that the FCC modify its Telecommunications Act to make it perfectly legal for the Telco’s to provide services like Nomorobo. Today the Act makes it illegal for Telco’s to not allow calls to go through via POTS.

What the FTC doesn’t address, and the FCC will need to, is the lost revenues to the Telco’s if the scam calls are no longer allowed in their networks. Revenue sharing (kickbacks), DIP fees, and various connection charges, surcharges could be affected adversely. I’m not very sympathetic to the Telco’s about this; I think they have overcharged us customers for years. Perhaps allowing the Telco’s to charge a small setup fee to its customers wanting to use a 3rd party service such as Nomorobo would be a value-added compromise?

But lost telescammer revenue isn’t the only issue: Telco’s charge more money for the newer VoIP services versus POTS services. They would prefer to switch all their customers to their VoIP services rather than install call blocking solutions on their older POTS landlines.

I think the FCC has an uphill battle trying to convince the telecom industry to offer Nomorobo type services on their older land lines. It’s too bad the telecom industry, through their well funded lobby here http://www.tiaonline.org, has such a dominate voice with the FCC.

The TIA does not have us telephone services customers in their best interests; I believe they are the definition of a ‘conflict of interest’. Even in the face of such opposition, I hope the FCC has the courage to stand up to the TIA/Telco’s and push the changes through for the consumer.