Some pollsters have tried to contact me on my cell phone (at least 3 times) and I’ve refused to answer. I know because the caller ID or text message they identify themselves. It makes me wonder how many times this has happened with others.
“Some pollsters have tried to contact me on my cell phone (at least 3 times) and I’ve refused to answer. I know because the caller ID or text message they identify themselves. It makes me wonder how many times this has happened with others.”
I will absolutely not answer my cell phone at all if the # is unfamiliar. If it is important, they will leave a message. THEN, I put that number into my contact list. Sad, but spammers have rendered a normal telephone function unusable.
I gave up on having a land line years ago because it occurred to me that I was paying $30-$40 a month to have spammers interrupt my evenings. We have a “home” phone system that Bluetooths to our cell phones.
I have some aversions to this because don’t think for a second that your cell phones will work in a public emergency. The PSTN (public switched telephone network) was designed and built at great, government-subsidized expense to survive a limited nuclear war. Cell is better that it was in the 90’s but I don’t think that it has “surge capacity” or sufficient redundancy.