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Originally Posted by GDW1975
I'm signing-up with TPS once we've changed our number - we moved house recently and NTL tried being helpful and transferred our old number to our new address. Unfortunately, however, the old number received an excessive amount of phone spam and debt collection agencies looking for a previous tennant 
I've heard that if companies call you when you're on TPS, they are liable for a £5K fine - anyone know if this is true? |
They updated the legislation last year but there seems to be little in the way of information on the details of penalties and offences on the TPS website.
I found that it only works for the the larger companies who use the TPS database and keep it updated regularly.
It doesn't stop the little companies who do it the old way by simply working their way manually through the telephone directory and don't cross reference to a TPS database.
We have two phone lines in the house under different initials so when we get a telesales call on one phone then I can guarantee that 5 or 10 minutes later the other phone will ring with the same telesales person. Very annoying.
TPS does stop the majority though and well worth registering.