Not sure if its actually true or not but I’ve been hearing rumors that telemarketers will soon be getting lists of cell phone numbers that they will be able to start calling. Personally this is a double hit because now, not only are they interrupting me regardless of where I am, I am actually paying to hear their sales pitch by the minutes that they are taking up on my cell phone.
So I finally signed up for the national “Do Not Call” list, which is supposed to reduce the number of sales calls you get to only those companies you do business with. Up until this point I hadn’t signed up because in my opinion, I’d rather be on no lists then any, regardless of the intentions of the list. All it takes is one law change to allow those lists to be called again and suddenly the telemarketing companies have a ton of new numbers just waiting for them to be used.
I figure though that if this rumor is true I could be in trouble. I usually put down my cell phone number for when I sign up for things specifically because I didn’t want to get calls so it may be best for me to sign up.
BTW, you can sign up as well at:
https://www.donotcall.gov or call (888) 382-1222