It is irritating for some people to receive telemarketing calls at home. There is a way for you to be able to lessen the call, the Telephone Preference Service or TPS can help you with that. Register your phone number on their do-not-call list and you will receive less telemarketing calls or calls from different organizations and charity. Even though name removal through
TPS is general in nature. You can lessen the number of calls from telemarketers from a specific company by having them place your number in the company’s do-not-call list the next time the company calls you.
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Click here to view TPS.
For those who find that telemarketing calls are an annoyance there are many remedies available, many without any cost, available under Canadian law and regulation. Tips from the CRTC's website include:
As a first step, call the telemarketers directly and ask to be removed from their fax lists or tell them you want to be placed on their "do not call" lists when they contact you by telephone. Most problems will be resolved at this point.
If you are unable to contact the telemarketing company or if you continue to receive telephone calls/faxes, contact your telephone company for assistance.
If you aren’t able to reach the telemarketer or have yourself removed from a fax/calling list and if the telephone company has been unable to assist you, contact the CRTC and we will pursue the matter on your behalf.
In addition, you can register to have your telephone numbers removed from marketing lists by mailing your request to the Canadian Marketing Association (CMA), P.O. Box 706, Don Mills, Ontario M3C 2T6, or faxing it to (416) 441-4062 or by completing the registration form at www.the-cma.org . Not all telemarketers are members of the CMA so this will not eliminate all unsolicited telemarketing calls. Make sure you indicate your first and last names as well as your complete address number and all telephone numbers, including any Ident-A-Call numbers. This free service is valid for three years and applies to telemarketing offers received by mail, telephone and fax.
You might also wish to consult the front pages of your local telephone directory under Privacy Issues to see what you can do to have your name removed from any directories made available by your local telephone company to publishers of independent paper and electronic directories, including the Canada 411 Internet directory. You might also want to contact your local telephone company directly to be removed from its telemarketing lists.
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Friday, June 6, 2008
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Caller ID
Caller ID (caller identification, CID, or more properly calling number identification) is a telephone service, available on POTS lines, that transmits a caller's number to the called party's telephone equipment during the ringing signal, or when the call is being set up but before the call is answered. Where available, caller ID can also provide a name associated with the calling telephone number. The information made available to the called party may be made visible on a telephone's own display or on a separate attached device.
Caller ID is often helpful for tracing down prank calls and other unwanted intrusions. However, it can also impede communication by enabling users to become evasive. The concept behind caller ID is the value of informed consent; however, it also poses problems for personal privacy.
Everdial Long Distance 4.9cents state-to-state rate, 24hours 7 days a week. 30 second initial, 6 second increments. Excellent international rates, low in-state rates. NO MONTHLY MINIMUMS or FEES. A 99cents Carrier Recovery Fee takes the place of the 3% Federal tax.
PNG Long Distance 3.9cents rate applies all day, every day for state-to-state calls in the contiguous 48 states. Now has a 99cents monthly fee. Awesome international rates! PNG also offers stand-alone toll free service, local phone service, high speed internet and cellular plans with very low international rates and a referral plan. Visit PNG Long Distance website for in-state rates, other info. and to order service.
Dialuno "Primero" 1 plus plan 3.8cents rate applies 24 hours/7 days a week for all state-to-state calls. billed in 6 second increments Great international rates, especially to Mexico and South American countries. Toll free numbers available at no extra charge and will bill incoming at same rates. Primus Telecommunications, Inc does the billing and customer service, calls are carried on the MCI network and Alliance AT&T network. A .95 Carrier Recovery Fee is added in any month the service is used. There is a minimal billing requirement of $5/month which means:If monthly usage totals less than $5, your bill will be adjusted to meet the $5 minimum.
ECG Long Distance 2.5cents state-to-state rate if billed by E-bill only and credit card. Also billed in 6 second increments. ECG also has toll free numbers available at no extra charge and incoming billing at same rates. $0.59 per month regulatory recovery fee applies to each taxable account, requires EasyPay and EasyBill. EasyBill is ECG's paperless billing option that lets customers receive their monthly ECG bill online. EasyPay is ECG's paperless payment option that lets customers pay their monthly ECG bill electronically via credit/debit card or bank draft.3.5cents state-to-state rate if you wish a paper bill and/or pay by check or other method $0.59 per month regulatory recovery fee applies to each taxable account, plus paper bill processing fee of $2.50ECG is available in approximately 80% of the country. When you request service, it will tell you if they don't serve your area.
Caller ID is often helpful for tracing down prank calls and other unwanted intrusions. However, it can also impede communication by enabling users to become evasive. The concept behind caller ID is the value of informed consent; however, it also poses problems for personal privacy.
Everdial Long Distance 4.9cents state-to-state rate, 24hours 7 days a week. 30 second initial, 6 second increments. Excellent international rates, low in-state rates. NO MONTHLY MINIMUMS or FEES. A 99cents Carrier Recovery Fee takes the place of the 3% Federal tax.
PNG Long Distance 3.9cents rate applies all day, every day for state-to-state calls in the contiguous 48 states. Now has a 99cents monthly fee. Awesome international rates! PNG also offers stand-alone toll free service, local phone service, high speed internet and cellular plans with very low international rates and a referral plan. Visit PNG Long Distance website for in-state rates, other info. and to order service.
Dialuno "Primero" 1 plus plan 3.8cents rate applies 24 hours/7 days a week for all state-to-state calls. billed in 6 second increments Great international rates, especially to Mexico and South American countries. Toll free numbers available at no extra charge and will bill incoming at same rates. Primus Telecommunications, Inc does the billing and customer service, calls are carried on the MCI network and Alliance AT&T network. A .95 Carrier Recovery Fee is added in any month the service is used. There is a minimal billing requirement of $5/month which means:If monthly usage totals less than $5, your bill will be adjusted to meet the $5 minimum.
ECG Long Distance 2.5cents state-to-state rate if billed by E-bill only and credit card. Also billed in 6 second increments. ECG also has toll free numbers available at no extra charge and incoming billing at same rates. $0.59 per month regulatory recovery fee applies to each taxable account, requires EasyPay and EasyBill. EasyBill is ECG's paperless billing option that lets customers receive their monthly ECG bill online. EasyPay is ECG's paperless payment option that lets customers pay their monthly ECG bill electronically via credit/debit card or bank draft.3.5cents state-to-state rate if you wish a paper bill and/or pay by check or other method $0.59 per month regulatory recovery fee applies to each taxable account, plus paper bill processing fee of $2.50ECG is available in approximately 80% of the country. When you request service, it will tell you if they don't serve your area.
Call waiting
Call waiting (or catch phone in Japan), in telephony, is a feature on some telephone networks. If a calling party places a call to a called party which is otherwise engaged, and the called party has the call waiting feature enabled, the called party is able to suspend the current telephone call and switch to the new incoming call (Typically, this is done by pushing the flash button), and can then negotiate with the new or the current caller an appropriate time to ring back if the message is important, or to quickly handle a separate incoming call.
Call waiting, then, alleviates the need to have a separate line for voice communications. Note that since the signal to the called party is audible (for example, a 440 Hz beep every ten seconds in North America), call waiting often can cause dial-up Internet connections to terminate. For this reason, call waiting is often disabled on shared voice/data telephone lines. In North America, the NANP uses *70 before a call to suspend call waiting for that call. A stuttered then regular dial tone confirms the de-activation.
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Type II caller ID also works with call waiting.
Call waiting, then, alleviates the need to have a separate line for voice communications. Note that since the signal to the called party is audible (for example, a 440 Hz beep every ten seconds in North America), call waiting often can cause dial-up Internet connections to terminate. For this reason, call waiting is often disabled on shared voice/data telephone lines. In North America, the NANP uses *70 before a call to suspend call waiting for that call. A stuttered then regular dial tone confirms the de-activation.
Click here for Dial-1 plans & other types of Long Distance
Type II caller ID also works with call waiting.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Fixed line operators -United States
Fixed line operators
AT&T
Verizon Communications (includes formerly independent GTE operating companies)
Fairpoint Communications
Qwest Corporation
BellSouth
Blue Casa Communications
SBC
CenturyTel
Cincinnati Bell (AT&T formerly held minority interest)
Embarq
Frontier
GTE
Malheur Bell (Independent subsidiary of Qwest Corporation/Mountain Bell)
Puerto Rico Telephone (TELPRI, former holding of Verizon, now 100% holding of América Móvil of Mexico)
Telephone and Data Systems
Windstream Communications
ACN Inc.
AT&T
Verizon Communications (includes formerly independent GTE operating companies)
Fairpoint Communications
Qwest Corporation
BellSouth
Blue Casa Communications
SBC
CenturyTel
Cincinnati Bell (AT&T formerly held minority interest)
Embarq
Frontier
GTE
Malheur Bell (Independent subsidiary of Qwest Corporation/Mountain Bell)
Puerto Rico Telephone (TELPRI, former holding of Verizon, now 100% holding of América Móvil of Mexico)
Telephone and Data Systems
Windstream Communications
ACN Inc.
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