Anon. Call Barring doesn't work from abroad? - Page 2

handyman · 07-10-2005, 09:23

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Originally Posted by Chrysalis

I think ntl do sell number's yes but I doubt if anyone can ever prove this.

Ntl don't sell numbers but I will bet theres a register somewhere that shows which number ranges they do have. Theres a web site called ukphoneinfo.com that tells you which operator has which number etc so If they have the information It must have come from some main source. Probably OSIS.

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OSIS, the United Kingdom database of telephone subscribers, managed and maintained by British Telecom plc.
OSIS contains the directory information of UK telephone subscribers - both business and residential - and is updated six times per week. Data is collected from UK network operators and licensed by BT to Simunix for the purpose of providing these services.

OSIS contains 28 million numbers and accepts upto 200000 changes daily so if you're daily or weekly snyc'd to it its out of date the second you sync.

Chrysalis · 07-10-2005, 17:45

handyman with all due respect I think none of us are in a position to say ntl are defenitly doing it or defenitly not doing it.

handyman · 07-10-2005, 20:18

I see no reason for 'ntl' to sell data at all since they provide it at no cost to OSIS. The OSIS datbase is maintained by 13 membercommunication companies. Including bt,ntl,thompson directories and yell etc. I know because I worked for the 13th member iomart internet on their ufindus product.

This data is available to anyone using the OSIS database so no need for ntl to sell it.

Hom3r · 07-10-2005, 23:49

Here is a simple thing to do.

My sister is a mother of two and is home for most of the week, where my brother inlaw worksthe phone is via PBX system and when they had call barring enabled he couldn't phone her from work, (mobiles are banned do to security restrictions) so she came up with this idea.

when she gets a call from a number which is not in the phones internal phone book she picks up the phone but doesn't speak, If it is from somebody that she knows they been told to speak ahe will then reply.

If she doesn't get a respond straight away she'll hang up.

thats what we do.