Block unwanted calls on landline phones

All landline phone holders receive unwanted phone calls from commercial operators, sales and advertising agencies. In recent times, calls have become increasingly frequent, coming mainly from telephone companies and also from operators who promise lower bills for electricity and gas.

In some cases it can become a real pressure, which leads to not answering practically any unknown number in the address book, with the risk however of missing calls from old friends whose numbers I don’t have or from people who want to contact us to deliver us. of parcels (in case we are waiting for a courier) or who are looking for us for professional reasons.

Luckily, today, it is possible block unwanted commercial calls on landlinethe most difficult to avoid given the nature of technology and the need to always leave the phone active (because if we turned it off its function would be completely lost).

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1) New Register of oppositions

One of the weapons we can Use against unwanted and commercial callsforeseen from a legal point of view, is the so-called register of oppositionsalso called RPO. The telephone numbers registered in the opposition register will be purified and deleted from the telesellers’ recall list.

The law in fact, it provides for the theoretical obligation for those who do marketing, i.e. those who use the telephone to promote commercial services and products, to communicate the numbers they intend to call to this opposition register.
In theory, therefore, anyone who registers in the opposition register should never be called by agencies, call centers and honest companies requesting authorization. Registration in the opposition register can be done via the web, but only by people who have a telephone subscription.

Registration in the Opposition Register is therefore the first thing to do if we can no longer accept unwanted calls from these agencies, companies or telephone operators. The Register of Oppositions is only useful for reject commercial calls to a landline number.

In theory, anyone who does not respect the opposition register goes against the law and should receive sanctions, especially if he calls with the number covered by anonymity which is always illegal. So this solution could work well on landline numbers.

2) Recognize sales calls

A strategy for distinguishing advertising calls and blocking them is as follows:
Every time that you receive a phone call from a number that we do not have in our address book and that it could be a commercial call, we do not answer and let’s look for that number on the site Tellows.it or on the site Chistachiamando.it.

If any match is found, then that number should definitely be avoided and put on the blocked numbers list. Tellows will provide the number, with a rating from 1 to 10, on the degree of insistence and annoyance caused, going so far as to define the most insistent and the most deceptive operators as “telephone terrorism”.

If the number is not found you can call it back, so as to know who was calling us. In the case of a number not present on Tellows, but which is instead the same one commercial callyou can write that number on the Tellows website and add it to the list of unwanted callers in Italy, so that other people can recognize it and block it.

3) Effective methods to block landline calls

Getting effective protection on a landline phone is very difficultgiven that to filter them we will have to use devices similar to classic answering machines or use a very modern and expensive landline telephone.

Modem router with call blocking

If we receive phone calls via VoIP (as in most cases with FTTH and FTTC fiber optics), we can always use a modem with filtering functionality to block incoming calls from numbers not in the address book or by creating your own personal filter for the most annoying numbers.

From this point of view, the best VoIP modem router that we can use to block unwanted commercial calls on landlines is theAVM FRITZ!Box 7590 AX Edition International.

With this router we will have advanced options to manage the phone book, to block calls from numbers not in the phone book or from anonymous calls and create your own “black list” with the most annoying numbers. Eventually you will get one Effective protection against all the most annoying advertising agencies who abuse telemarketing and you will avoid receiving any unwanted calls even from landlines.

Landline telephone with call block

If we don’t want to change modem or the phone is to be used by elderly people who are not very tech savvy we can use a landline telephone with call blocking.

Various models are available on Amazon, freely configurable according to our needs. The simplest models allow you to create a list of numbers to block or use predefined filters to block unwanted calls.

The more advanced models allow you to receive calls only from selected numbers (whitelist) or to download new number filters from the Internet, so as to intercept as many phone calls as possible. In these cases it is advisable to carefully read the characteristics of the model under consideration and choose only the one that fully reflects the needs of those who will use the phone.

Conclusions

These methods will allow you to block unwanted calls on a landline. The simplest method remains the opposition register, but it is no longer very effective. The best methods remain the modem with call filtering (definitely the best method but requires skill) and the telephone with call filtering included.

In another article we saw how find out the number of those who call anonymouslyexcellent for blocking those good-natured people or dishonest agencies who call users anonymously in the hope of being able to market (they are often outright scams).