[kingu]

If you don't want to talk to a telemarketer (or your brother in law), get Caller ID

This makes sense, buy more stuff, pay for more telephone services, so that you can stop telemarketers from using the phone you pay for (plus taxes.)

[Badray]

Then don't buy any services. That is your choice. So I spend ten cents a day to know who is calling me. Big deal. I get 20 to 50 calls a day and I don't always have time to take all the calls and there are calls that I don't want to miss.

To me, that's a better way than to run to the freaking federal government for 'protection'.