When telemarketers call my cell number, I'm paying for all those minutes. It's supposed to be illegal, but there's big loophole: it's illegal to knowingly call a cell number. If they claim they called your cell by mistake, there's nothing you can do.
Good point. I have had telemarketers call my cell phone. In fact, I had someone from HUD keep calling me for a damn survey -- they kept calling and calling even though I told them to put me on the "Do not call list". Of course, like everything else, the government exempts itself.
I finally had to just about cuss the guy out to get him to stop calling. Maybe it was the line about how I don't even think that HUD should exist and that it was a total waste of taxpayer money that worked :)