Re: Phone call..

From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	aus.computers, aus.tv
Subject	Re: Phone call..
Date	2016-05-03 04:15 +1000
Message-ID	<dopjqsFpoptU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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"BruceS" <bruces42@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:ng7qrd$2tg$1@dont-email.me...
> On 05/01/2016 05:21 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
>>
>>
>> "BruceS" <bruces42@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:ng0h6e$bck$1@dont-email.me...
>>> On 04/29/2016 10:57 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
>>>> BruceS <bruces42@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>> What difference does it make to the spammer whether your number is a
>>>>> mobile or a land line?  I've noticed that I don't get spam calls to my
>>>>> cell, while I get plenty to my land line despite being on no-call
>>>>> lists.  I don't know why, though.
>>>>
>>>>    Maybe your landline is in some online directory and your mobile is
>>>> not?
>>>
>>> That could be it.  I've had the land line long enough, it could be on
>>> all sorts of lists and directories.  I don't suppose you know why it
>>> would make any difference in terms of cost to the spammers?
>>
>> Because it's a lot cheaper to call numbers on a list than to call
>> numbers at random and see if anyone useful ever answers the call.
>
> That makes a lot of sense.  So the difference is to not whether your
> phone is land or mobile (or VOIP), but rather whether it's on a list,

Its all of those, because in many jurisdictions it costs a lot more
to call mobile numbers than landlines, and it isnt even possible
to call VOIPs that don't have a direct indial number.

> which a land line will normally be on (at least here) as soon as you
> get it, unless you pay extra for unlisted.  When I got VOIP, it came
> with a new number, and didn't include any white pages listing.

Ours mostly don't and while you can have a white pages listing
for your mobile for free, that is optional and few bother to have
it listed in the white pages.

> I "ported" my old number for convenience sake, but that meant staying on 
> the white pages listing.

I currently don't bother with an indial number with mine,
because I have to have the landline for the DSL service,
it isnt possible to have what we call a naked DSL service
in town, a DSL service without a landline service. And
since my voip service has no fixed charge at all except
when you have a direct indial number, I just have the
voip present my landline number as its caller ID and
don't bother with another direct indial number.

Mate of mine has so many numbers that when the free
voip call doesn't get him, it's a hell of a hassle trying
all the numbers in sequence to see which will get him
when either the voip isnt ringing for some reason or
he is away from home and can be using one of a range
of mobile numbers or skype or voip on his smartphone etc.

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