This is exactly why I axed my home phone line years ago. Cell is the only way to go. I still get telemarketers sometimes because I use the cell as my home phone number on anything I have to give my home phone number to, I mostly get my banks calling me to add credit card balance protection plans, but here's the kicker: with a cell you can put it on silent when you sleep, so you'll never get a wakeup call from these crooks, and ALSO on most phones you can block incoming calls from certain numbers, so just block all 1-800 or 1-866 numbers and you've got these telemarketer calls cut down about 90%. I haven't had a telemarketer call me in a year save for the odd ones that called when my phone was on silent. I work graveyards quite often too.
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