{"id":784,"date":"2014-10-25T15:54:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T15:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/?p=784"},"modified":"2014-11-04T09:46:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T09:46:06","slug":"telephone-preference-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"Telephone Preference Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like most people, I registered with the Telephone Preference Service and, also like most people, I found it a complete waste of time. Here’s yesterday’s call list dutifully blocked by my phone:<\/p>\n

\"pest-calls\"<\/a><\/p>\n

On the occasions that I receive a call that isn’t blocked, they all have one of two things in common. They’re either from UK companies using an International phone number or they’re UK companies using a pre-recorded preamble.<\/p>\n

Checking on the TPS website, it appears that these types of callers are exempt from the TPS regulations and it begs the question: Why leave such an obvious gaping loophole to enable these companies to exploit and annoy us?<\/p>\n

When you read the TPS website, you find: <\/p>\n

“Who pays for TPS?
\nNo money is received from the Government to run the Service, the direct marketing industry pays for it.”<\/p>\n

So, that explains it. Well you’d never shoot the goose that lays the golden eggs would you! <\/p>\n

Pre-recorded and international nuisance calls are supposed to be dealt with by the Information Commissioner’s Office. I’ve tried them – another complete waste of space. A taxpayer-funded gravy train if ever there was!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like most people, I registered with the Telephone Preference Service and, also like most people, I found it a complete waste of time. Here’s yesterday’s call list dutifully blocked by my phone: On the occasions that I receive a call that isn’t blocked, they all have one of two things in common. They’re either from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}