Re: Cell Phone Question -- PCTECH

I am curious. How many of those unwanted calls do you get in a year? I get about 4 out of perhaps 50 calls that are unknown to me, that I answer, and that I want to receive. "Private number" almost invariably is from a friend who has had to borrow a stranger's phone and is in some sort of minor distress.

On 11/25/2013 7:48 AM, John Jones wrote:

While US cell phone users do accrue minutes for both accepting and placing
calls, there are exceptions. Most carriers have free night & weekend
offerings (with the definition of "night" differing but usually starting no
earlier than 7PM) and some also offer free calls between cell phones (some
only when both cells are on the same carrier; others for any cell
carrier). Some carriers also offer unlimited plans.

But minutes are fairly cheap. I don't answer because of marketing calls as
Norm mentioned. The US has a Do Not Call list where consumers can place
themselves on the list so that telemarketers won't call them. Basically an
opt-out list. But political organizations and charities don't have to
honor the list so unsolicited calls persist.

I give my cell number to friends, family, and work. No one else unless
there's a solid reason. So an unknown number calling me generally means
that someone I don't know, most likely a telemarketer, is calling. I let
those calls go to voicemail on the premise that if it's important enough to
warrant my time, they'll leave a message. But they never do.

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 7:22 AM, Colpaert, Peter <Peter.Colpaert@xxxxxxxxxxx

wrote:
In that case it's different from Europe.

Here, only the caller pays for the call. The recipient only needs to pay
(part of) the call costs if he's not connected to his own provider, meaning
roughly when abroad.

This of course explains why you would not accept a call from someone you
don't know.

I didn't get out of bed for nothing today, I learned something new :-)

Met vriendelijke groeten / Best regards,

Peter Colpaert
Software Engineer - PLM Development Team
IT Operations Cluster Benelux, Philips IT

Philips Consumer Luminaires
Industrieterrein Satenrozen 11, 2550 Kontich, Belgium
Tel: (+32) 3/459 13 17
Email: Peter.Colpaert@xxxxxxxxxxx

Working from home on Wednesdays

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Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Cell Phone Question

Basically agreed. That is, I don't have what is called Caller ID, but my
phone displays names from my phone's contact list. Anything else is
usually a nuisance call.

Here, I think, both ends pay for the call. That is, the minutes are
accrued to me (the recipient) as well as to the caller. There may be some
exceptions here (US), but I've never heard of them.

Jerry C. Adams

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