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Keep quiet about nuisance callers
We are not so much a campaigning page, more one that doesn't know when to shut up. So we are happy to claim the credit for exciting - but probably useless - developments at the Telephone Preference Service.
"Since you featured my problem, TPS will now accept complaints about silent calls - but will not act on them," says John Loader. "They now forward all complaints to Ofcom."
It seems that when Ofcom set up the TPS, it did not know about autodiallers, so TPS simply does not have the authority to do anything. A tip: if you're an irritating and malicious cold caller, it's not making a call to a TPS-blocked number that will get you in trouble, it's opening your mouth when you get through.
"When I worked for Post Office Telephones silent calls were treated as malicious and a crime, now they're honest commercial practice," John adds.
"How about a campaign to make silent calls illegal because of the effect they can have on vulnerable people?"
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