Drop the landline. That’s where I got most of my unsolicited phone calls, despite being on the Do Not Call registry. Now that I only use a cell phone I rarely get an unwanted call.
Not that rare for me...but I've found that the recorded junk calls on the cell can be thwarted if you connect but say nothing for about five seconds. If a person is there they'll usually give a tentative "hello", but the recorded robocalls take the silence after connecting as an answering machine and hang up.
As far as the Do Not Call list goes, I reported a number of repeated callers whom I had told not to call because I am on the list. But there is no way to follow up to see what, if any action was taken. I suspect the DNC list is an employment program for the otherwise unemployable relatives of the "connected".
I still have a landline, including an old dial-up phone in the garage.
If you take its phone off the hook and unplug the jack from the receiver it will not ring anywhere in the house.
I have had to use it when I was tired and needed a serious nap without interruptions.
we only have cells no landline. it’s on my cell. I’ve been blocking calls, but that seems to make it worse, frankly.