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} FTC has proposed that the FCC modify its Telecommunications Act to make it perfectly legal for the Telco’s to provide services like Nomorobo.

My recall of the FTC's "FYI" note to the FCC in late January is that the fix is actually simpler. The FTC's assertions imply strongly that no one has to change a law before telcos can grant their customers a choice in nuisance call management.

As I find myself repeating since this FTC comment, phone carriers would still violate their common carrier obligations if they decided unilaterally what makes a given call "good" or "bad". However, the carriers could roll out a call manager service for all subscribers, functioning like those enjoyed by VOIP and cellular customers. They could do this next week and they cannot be punished for blocking calls *at a customer's request* and *with customer consent*.

The only nudge for paperwork the FTC made was to suggest that the FCC issue a ruling clarifying what should already be painfully obvious to staff attorneys at all the phone carriers. Just give the blessing and let's please get on with driving up the cost of illegal telemarketing, the FTC said in essence.

Post-ruling, we sit back and watch, discovering finally which carriers are motivated to keep their residential customers sane and happy and which are hopelessly addicted to junk call revenue. As you've hinted, the whole "FCC won't let us" whining could well have been a cheap excuse for inaction all along.

Hey I am really sorry if i upset ppl. If you look at my post you'll see i said i'm disabled. I took a bullet though my spine overseas so folks like you can piss and moan on the internet. I haven't seen sh*t from the VA besides a chair. My local church put in ramps and are taking care of my yard. That's my rant but I  didn't think it was necessary until you had to act like an internet troll. By the way I think Nomorobo is a cool service, my original post!

Hey slim thanks for the links. I'm not out here much but i think "big a" knows that. i do appreciate the links. I guess maybe i'm kinda bitter so far as a rant. I'll be the first to say i'm wrong if i am. Look at my post to big a maybe u'll get it

Dan, let me be the first to thank you for your service to our country. I am sorry that you became disabled while defending the rest of us so that we retain the liberty to be able to say what we want to, when we want to, where we want to and to whom we want to. God Bless you, sir, for your sacrifice.

Exactly. It's stressful enough to deal with daily scammers. I just want to temporarily divert my mind, relax, open up my chakras and get some peace. Which means disconnecting my land line  and do some TM. :-)

Hey thanks. I do know who Aaron Foss (founder of  nomorobo) is and I do know he said the government couldn't or wouldn't stop robo calls. That's why he entered the contest to stop them. I do appreciate ur post but hell I was just trying to make a point. Nomorobo is a cool deal and it's free!. You have yourself a great evening and give someone a hug for me.

So in your book CALLERID4U is a TELCO?  It takes the phone numbers that were GIVEN it when it registered as a public utility.  Only North Dakota revoked that after it investigated the company.  WHY AREN'T THE FEDS PROSECUTING THIS COMPANY UNDER THE ENABLING PROVISION.

WHY WHY WHY?????

Dan, I know what you were trying to say. And you had the right to say it without being criticized. You have a great life.

Dan thank you for your service. You are a great person and we appreciate /admire you. :)

CallerId4U, Inc. (AKA GRSTEL Inc) is a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) registered in Oregon, Washington, and North Dakota.  They also own phone numbers in California and Nevada under the name 33 Wireless Inc.  They are believed to be located somewhere in the Los Angeles CA area; however they use a mail forwarding address in Seattle to create the illusion that they have a physical presence in the state of Washington.  Paul Maduno is the President and CEO of GRSTEL Inc., founded in 2009.

They cater to the Telemarketing industry and provide services to these scum that help hide their real identities. They make tons of money from the Telemarketers who contract with them (kickbacks and other “revenue”). They also sell predictive dialer technology to call centers and will change the CNAM associated with any of their numbers with 24 hours.

Because they themselves do not make the calls (their customers do) they cannot be easily sued for non-compliance with local and Federal law. They SAY on their website that they will put a stop to abusive calls being made through phone numbers they own ... if we were to file a complaint on their website here: http://callerid4u.com (click the Make a Complaint button). Yeah, like we’re all going to rush to do that!

33 Wireless is the division of Callerid4u where I seem to get a large number of telemarketing calls from. I just post these numbers on 800Notes and point to their parent company as the culprit.

There is no uncertainty that Callerid4u is one of the biggest and most frequently cited enablers of scam calls in the USA. Because of this, unfortunately, their numbers are often spoofed by scammers from foreign countries. This tends to put even more blame on Callerid4u than perhaps warranted. I have no sympathy about that though. I wish there was an easy way to take away their license and put them out of business.

Hang in there, Never give up, I was in NAM in 72, Got hit once, and shot down a few times in a fling wing death trap.
QUONDAM AGUILA IN INFINITUM- translation-Once an Eagle to Infinity, for all you folk who forgot your high school latin

Thank you for your service. May God bless you with abundance, love and peace. My best regards, Huh.

Someone posted the number blocks used by CallerID4U in a thread here, so I took all those and entered them into the Phone Tray program I'm using as a call blocker.  I noticed that a great many of the unwanted calls we were getting here came from that company, so now instead of blocking them one by one I preemptively blocked all of them.  Luckily Phone Tray allows you to use wild cards so that you don't have to enter each number and can block entire exchanges.

The calls we were getting from the CallerID4U numbers were always robocalls using a city and state in the Caller ID.  If you've ever seen "ALBANY     OR" show up on your caller ID, for instance, it was coming from this company.

Who do you use when your phone company doesn't support Nomorobo?  I'm sick of getting up to 15 calls/day and either no one is there or they don't leave a message.  I've gotten 25 calls in the last 2 months from a local business with 18 different phone numbers all in another state.  Is there any other free call blocker?  Thanks.

Please tell us which phone company, name of service, what phone device. Maybe we can help you find a solution.