tired of silent calls

You don't provide a link to your reports.

I find it hard to beleive that there are groups who argue that making silent calls is acceptable and should not be prevented by Ofcom. Especialy when most silent calls have no caller ID.

The companies that are responsible for making these calls are lobbying to prevent legislation being brought in.

They are not, they are argueing that it is expedient and as such they should continue to inconvenience people for an overall economic benefit. Kind of how we got call-centres in the first place.

tim

They are automated calls. The scum that use this method know that 99% (or more) calls will fail so they use an automated dialler and only pass the call through to a limited number of 'representatives' when someone answers - if no representative is available the call is silent. They usually withhold their number or use a premium rate return number.

I get plagued by these calls, despite having signed up with the The Telephone Preference Service (TPS) [1] a year ago. As a result of these calls I now let the answer-phone pick up all my calls [2]

[1] The TPS is somewhat of joke as it cannot (will not) deal with any silent call complaints and it has no influence on advertising cold calls from abroad which are becoming common [2] The problems with this is that some foreign companies, such as the Disney Corporation, fill up the answer machine with automated advertising.

Why won't they deal? Is it because you can't show that they're advertising calls?

Adrian Smith wrote

I have a tough time reassuring my 71 y/o lady friend that these are not malicious calls. They are certainly nuisance calls.

She had that, too, but not to the same degree.