This is more a curiosity than anything else, but I wanted to check it out. We have our landline with BT, and at our previous address got lots of phone calls from competing phone companies, trying to get us to switch. I constantly told them no, and please remove us from you list. It didn’t work very well.
When we moved we ended up keeping the phone number of the previous resident (long story) who had been ex-directory with a different phone company. After a lot of hassle with that phone company, we changed to BT, and kept the number ex-directory.
Last week, over a year after we switched, we got a call from the old phone company. Since we’re an ex-customer they wanted us to know about their new price plans, blah blah blah. This is the same company that I got calls from at the old house, and had to practically threaten before they took us off the list, so I'm not happy that they're calling again.
According to BT’s website, we are automatically listed on the ‘do not call’ list. So does this other company have the right to call us because we're an ex-customer, even though we're on the do not call list? I presume since this company until recently provided all phone lines, they probably have everyone’s phone number… can they call whoever they want, because they are ‘ex customers’?
When we moved we ended up keeping the phone number of the previous resident (long story) who had been ex-directory with a different phone company. After a lot of hassle with that phone company, we changed to BT, and kept the number ex-directory.
Last week, over a year after we switched, we got a call from the old phone company. Since we’re an ex-customer they wanted us to know about their new price plans, blah blah blah. This is the same company that I got calls from at the old house, and had to practically threaten before they took us off the list, so I'm not happy that they're calling again.
According to BT’s website, we are automatically listed on the ‘do not call’ list. So does this other company have the right to call us because we're an ex-customer, even though we're on the do not call list? I presume since this company until recently provided all phone lines, they probably have everyone’s phone number… can they call whoever they want, because they are ‘ex customers’?