Most of us have probably known someone who has had a problem with unsolicited telephone calls, and some of us will ourselves have had these problems. There is not much you can say about the way that these calls affect a person, but if you are of a nervous disposition it can reach the stage where you are jumping out of your skin every time the phone rings. Whoever the unsolicited calls are from, they can be horrible for the recipient – and yet there seems to […]

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Many people – perhaps most people who have a phone – have at one time or another been somewhat concerned by the number of calls they get on it from numbers that they do not recognise. It is something that affects cell phone users perhaps more than anyone, due to the fact that we have our cell phone with us all the time whereas the home phone is often unattended when everyone in the house is either out at school or at work. While our cell phones […]

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There can be no doubt that, as an invention, the telephone is one of man’s greatest achievements. With all of the developments that have taken place, it is now possible to call someone on the other side of the world from wherever you want – including from the Internet, an invention which itself would have been impossible without telephone lines. On balance, the telephone is an invention very few of us would ever want to be without. In truth, it is something that most of us make […]

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It is easy enough to find the telephone number of a person or a business when you know their name. It is a simple matter of getting the telephone directory and looking them up, and from there you can call them on the phone to speak to them. Doing things the other way round, though, has not been possible for most of our lives, as much as we would like it to be. If you partly recognise the number you can go through your own personal phone […]

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