Verizon call screening features

Hi,

I'd like a phone/service with the following features:

1) Require the caller to enter a code (randomly generated) in order to allow the call through to ring or voicemail.

2) If I get a call from someone I never want to hear from again, I just press one key and they are added to a list and permanantly screened.

I currently have Verizon service/LG phone, but Verizon gets too much $ from the telespammers, so they won't offer any feature that screens calls.

I'm willing to switch to ANY service/phone that can provide these features.

Good luck. Some phones (handsets) offer this but I know of no service that caters to the fearful.

tampadelphian,

Please post your phone number here -- I'd like to call you to discuss it further...

sure...it's 813 541 9889. Give me a call anytime.

(nice try, by the way)

Again, some particular handsets have the ability to restrict calls to those who are on your contact list, and some of the PDA phones can block particular numbers or calls that are listed on caller ID as "restricted". But there is no cellular carrier on earth that has the technology to block particular numbers or require you to enter a code to call a particular number.

You know kind, I just get tired of people jumping to conclusions as to the conspiracy theories behind not offering a certain feature.

We don't get paid a single red cent from telephone spammers (text spammers is unfortunately a different story) and the reason we don't have what you're looking for is a simple matter of technology. It's simple to block a number when you have a dedicated line coming into your home like your landline, but quite a different story when you're bouncing off of any one of dozens of towers in your area, and thousands nationwide. Please don't see a conspiracy or profiteering behind every rock or tree---sometimes it's just not the case.

I s/w customer today, upset because he got a "restricted call" in the middle of the night and I advised him of "WHAT" can be done, ie law enforcement, etc..Then proceeded that law enforcement won't do anything anyway.. Ok my goodness, let me get this straight, so.. It's cell ph company's fault that you got the call (they probably should have found a way to make the call drop prior to the connection.) and it is also the cell company's fault if your local law enforcement doesn't do anything to proceed with the matter.. Then he was mad because he couldn't block the number that was restricted!! Come on now.... First of all if ya could block a certain number you don't know what that number was!! Hello!! Why do some people think cell phones have some kind of "do all, see all powers , grrrrrrrrrr..............Call the landline companies yell at them cause you can't use it 10 miles from your house while your grocery shopping.. please..(Though something tells me there is someone out there that probably has done just that!

Tampadelphian, there is of course a third option, that is, at least to aleviate Texan's current paranoia and/or distraught state; simply block [all] incoming calls to that number, which can easily be done, regardless of the fact it is not a landline number

However, there is one thing that vzw *could* do, at least to start, tampadelphian, which of course would be at least, a first-step, in my mind, of blocking out unwanted calls, since managing a list prior to call connection via towers (cells), would indeed be cumbersome (primarily because they're greedy lazy assclowns, but nonetheless), all the blocking of call-originating area-codes and/or registered exchanges. Seems simple enough, plus would not breach any contracts.
Oh well, neat thought though Texan.
Texan, by the way, for the truly paranoid, regarding your initial, aforementioned request, this can conveniently be implemented via software, however given the lack of cooperation from the service provider themselves, you would be limited in the extent of auto-connection management and any sort of true authentication, albeit caller ID.
Regardless, given vzw's apparent "way of things," the simplest solution, in my mind, is an utterly simple handset-side software implementation! Simply allow the handset -itself- to descide what to do; e.g. ideal all: incoming call -> consult DNC list (or some equiv) -> action? : intervene, handle appropriately, or direct to user. Seems logical enough. Why this has not been done is beyond me. Though clearly this bypasses or rather, strays away from any input or action necessary from the original caller (i.e. a secret code).

$0.02

Not paranoid Daveman, I think it is really simple myself, don't know who it is and don't want to answer it, real simply, don't answer it! Hit ignore, they go straight to vm, I don't call that paranoid on my part.. Cell ph really don't 50 million other options to them do they?

Well, Daveman

It does not seem all that logically possible to myself on a cell phone, but then again I have never claimed to be a tech kinda person, doesn't really interest my simple mind.. Who knows maybe that is something in the future. Have a good one!

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