[LINK] New intrusive calls - over voip

[Tom Worthington]

At 04:04 PM 2/07/2008, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
>On 02/07/2008, at 1:48 PM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>
> > ...They obviously must be working for some telecomms company,
> > but they aren't fessing up. ...

They might claim to be from "Chic-a-go". This is the advice the 
American call center coach gave to his Indian staff, in the movie 
"Outsourced" <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsourced>. This is a 
good airplane movie (that is one step down from a rental movie: one 
that is worth watching when you are stuck on an eight hour flight).  ;-)

More seriously, if you want to have free phone calls to anywhere in 
the world, then you are going to have to expect people will want to 
call you from anywhere in the world. Perhaps phone companies will 
start giving away phone services and charging for call filtering. 
Being able to get calls from anyone will be free, but being able to 
NOT GET calls from anyone will be a value added service.



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