[Dog Gone]

How much does it cost for an unlisted number in your area? It's $1 per month in my area. I get about one telemarketer call per year.

[Texas Eagle]

I don't know but I'll certainly check into it.

[Positive]

These telemarketing operations are using a machine to make the calls, theres a person sitting there and a light tells them that you've answered - they press the button and start their pitch.

These machines are costly and aren't economically worthwhile if you are in a rural area - in that case the sales people have to dial their numbers from whatever source of numbers they use - so yours being unlisted would work.

[APBaer]

"How much does it cost for an unlisted number in your area? It's $1 per month in my area. I get about one telemarketer call per year."

In some locations it is rather expensive.
Some protection is afforded by having the phone in another name, and it doesn't cost extra.

When a friend of mine calls me, the caller ID announces an incoming call from her father who died in the 1950's.