NoMoRobo

So, what’s the HPPA got to do with robocalls?
HPPA    Hewlett-Packard Precision Architecture
HPPA    Hospital Purchaser-Provider Agreement
HPPA    HomePlug Powerline Alliance
HPPA    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
HPPA    High Power Proton Accelerators
HPPA    Health Protection and Promotion Act (Ontario, Canada)

I've been using Nomorobo since its inception. It's a rare robo call that gets through to my phone. Nomorobo is getting close to being 100% effective. I'm thankful that Nomorobo is available for FIOS customers.

I saw somewhere that it was being funded by Federal Trade Commission funds. If this is the case, it is probably a better use of the monies that are presently funding the people who work on the Do Not Call list, which is obviously not even the least bit effective anymore.

Criminals don't obey laws..  The DNC only keeps the honest ones honest.

Tamianth is right.  Before the DNC list was established telemarketing was legal.  My home phone was flooded with time share sales calls and photography studio sales calls and people selling magazines and other sales pests.  The DNC list law stopped those calls.

For a scammer the DNC list law is just ome more law to break.

Alpha, I'm thinking you meant HIPPA, and if that's the case, then you are absolutely right. Not only is the care-giver that calls you gauging your reaction, but they are also bound by law to make certain that they are only discussing a patient's condition with someone that the patient has given them permission to speak to about it.

Mister "nonesense" laid on excess sarcasm about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, known by perhaps America's most misspelled acronym, HIPAA.

As of this morning, I was able to successfully setup NOMOROBO on my Time Warner phone. I have now disconnected my Teleblocker and disabled the 30 numbers that were in my Selective Call Blocking list in order to perform accurate testing of this service. I will report back from time to time on the results.

I'm jealous!  I have been unsuccessful in getting AT&T to offer simultaneous ringing for my landline.

I filed a complaint against AT&T with the FCC about a month ago.  I received a call from AT&T Corporate and they left me a Vmail saying I should switch to their U-verse (VoIP) product (at higher costs) or pay them for call blocking services (more higher costs).  For me, this only confirmed AT&T’s corporate greed and their on-going lack of concern for their existing customers under attack by scum robocallers.  

If I need to move to VoIP to get Nomorobo, it WILL NOT be through AT&T.

I had AT&T as my phone provider for years until about 4 years ago. Turns out that our cable that feeds the street began developing bad pairs due to water ingress (it is direct buried) and I got tired of my phone going out every month or so, along with the buzzing and line noise. AT&T to this day refuses to replace the cable due to the cost. They just kept coming out and swapping everybody on the street to different pairs made of what was still working in the cable, causing recently repaired customers to go bad again! Since I have been on Time Warner, I have only had two minor issues. One involved odd ring intervals and the other was the apparently now cleared NOMOROBO compatibility issue. I would certainly recommend Time Warner as a very reliable phone provider, along with the fact that they are cheaper than AT&T and offer the options that AT&T charges for free.

One thing that would probably be effective in stopping the robo calls and especially the silent robo calls would be to eliminate the Caller ID Dipping fees.  That seems to be the new scam.  If they talk someone out of a few credit card numbers along the way so much the better but most of the calls that I get these days are abandoned after a few rings.  Just long enough for Caller ID data to be requested and delivered so that they can collect their 1/4 cent per call.

I easily set up NoMoRobo on my Time Warner phone and have not had a single robo call for the past week!  I had been receiving 5-10 calls per day.  My phone does not ring at all, not even the first ring.  Apparently they are able to intercept the call before my phone rings.

It still isn't available for everyone yet though. So some folks will have to either deal with the calls in their own way or look at buying a device or phone that blocks calls still until it is..

Trying to figure out if this would be of use for me. Whilst I reside in the UK, our offices do utilise several U.S. based phone numbers for purposes on conducting trade there while at the same time reducing costs by instituting voip. Our carriers for those particular lines run through Virgin Media. Although notorious for sub-par service in some sectors, I wonder if the technology could be used to allow nomorobo to work on these specific lines since they are after all ported from the U.S. and have American area codes. There is great interest in this technology here. Virgin does not support this at this time but perhaps will do so in the near future. Has anyone who uses Nomo tried this with voip lines?

Nomorobo is a service offered by your carrier.  They buy and install it, you sign up to use it.  So to try it you'd have to get Virgin Media to buy it.