If anybody wants to see how these devices work,look up true call and see.I
amvery happy with my staand alon device as its totally blind friendly and
controlled from the phone itself, it has white and black lists. I understand
there is a recent update to require a hash be typed to thwart pr recorded
messages which try to fool the devices. You can even ask the caller to
enter their pin if you only want certain people to get through on a number.
brian

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Nightjar wrote:
On 26-Aug-16 11:23 AM, Tim+ wrote:
Harry Bloomfield wrote:
I have just replaced our phones, with a set which filters out nuisance
callers, unless they are live callers who can follow a proceedure to
get through.

My new concern is that we sometimes get automated calls from the
electric, gas, flood and water utilities, when they have an issue and
we obviously want these calls to get through - so I need to find out
the numbers they use to ring us from, so I can include them in the list
of accepted numbers.

Has anyone found such a list, or even a proper name for this type of
prerecorded warning phone call?


The obvious answer is to ask the utilities concerned.

Do they really call so frequently that missing the call would be a
concern?

I've only ever had on flood warning call, but I wouldn't have wanted to
miss it.



That seems to be the only one that I can imagine not wanting to miss if I
lived in a flood zone.

Tim

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