118 800 - Mobile Phone Directory.

[SoulKiss]

New mobile phone directory being set up.

I dont know how they are building the directory - they have a box for adding your number, but as they also have a way of making your number ex-directory they may be getting the numbers from another source too.

The paradox of course is that if they dont have your number you are giving it to them when you request to be blocked...

My intarwebz paranoia says to wait until you get someone contacting you via this service before blocking it.

[Spiderman]

Zig Heil Herr Kiss

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by Spiderman

Zig Heil Herr Kiss

Not Hitlers Mobile Phone Directory ?

DOH!

[Spiderman]

Yup, "Simpsons did it"

From our European Mobile communications expert who's nearly retired. He knows his beans!!!!!!

OK – facts first.
This company has set up a database of mobile numbers which are available in the public domain.
That is to say – at some point you may have given your numbers to some firm or another as contact information (e.g. Eurotunnel).
If the company has sold on this information then your numbers may appear on this list – or not, there may have been a box to tick which precludes that possibility happening (e.g. Eurotunnel).
If your number is publicly available – like mine on the ???? websites – then the list may have been populated this way as well.
If it is only you and your family that know your numbers – they will not be on the list.
In any event – autodialers can find you by a brute force approach.

I could care very much less about what the BBC may or may not think – at the end of the day they are just uninformed journalists

Don't they call first and ask you permission to pass the person through, but with out giving the third party the number. So they connect the person with your permission through the enquiry service.

I'm not available but I don't use Eurotunnel

Originally Posted by Daimo

From our European Mobile communications expert who's nearly retired. He knows his beans!!!!!!...

He uses two bean cans and a length of string?

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

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The paradox of course is that if they dont have your number you are giving it to them when you request to be blocked...

My intarwebz paranoia says to wait until you get someone contacting you via this service before blocking it.

Good thinking. All hail soulkiss!

Originally Posted by Miss Alpinestarhero

Good thinking. All hail soulkiss!

Except that you don't provide your name when you de-register your number, so they can't use an unsubscribe request to add your details to their database. Methinks that SK is being a tad too paranoid.