Got a call from this number, 316-300-0000, at 4:44 PM today - and it popped up on my cell phone from Kansas. Area Code 316 is Wichita. Further, my caller ID said it was a person named Ron Gier, who google associated with that majorly sucky SPRINT corporation.
Yes, the same sucky company that lays off thousands of employees at a time, some times right before the holidays, and sold off thousands of network employees to their bedmate, Ericsson. And yes, the same company who bought Nextel for a bizillion dollars and then lost their pants with the sour deal for no other reason than to pay bonus and stock to former Nextel managers and excutives who have now screwed the once powerful and admired Sprint Corporation into the ground. Yes, a wonderful example of American Greed and how to destroy what once was an excellent example of American Business. Sprint used to command a huge amount of respect in the marketplace - remember Candice Bergen and the PIN DROP commercials? But now, it's all been squandered by executives who actually get paid to destroy what was once great. Shame on the FCC for allowing any of this to happen, but, most of all - shame on those individuals at Sprint and their board of directors that knowlingly went down this road. It's a pity, too, since Sprint was founded by good people who actually cared about families and communities. Now, it's all about money. Money. Money. And, they don't care how they get it - they just want it - more and more of it. Not for their employees - but for their executives. What a perfect example of GREED. Shame. Shame. Shame.
When I asked to be taken off their call list the man told me to go f@#% myself several times. I asked to speak to his manager and he repeated himself and hung up.
>>> text Obama or eric holder bound to be related to one or the other tell them to have it stopped do you about much good as calling do not call list <<<
Well, you get what you pay for. It's been reported here that there are about 30 FCC employees that maintain the DNC list. Let's estimate each one earns $500,000/year in salary and perks. I know, that sounds wrong, but don't forget all the free perks they receive, for example, free coffee in the federal lunchrooms, all the pencils and pens they can steal, yacht trips with Obama in Hawaii six time per year, junkets to Virginia and Maryland, and free parking at the office.
That's a total of $15,000,000 a year on the federal DNC list alone! Now, if we spent all that money on those Digitone call blockers we see mentioned all over this web site at $60 each that block up to 1,500 unwanted numbers, we could pay for call blockers for 250,000 lines a year! Realizing that landlines are becoming passé and counting only cell phone subscriptions, and assuming that we only have to be concerned with the 310,000,000 cell phone subscriptions currently in place, at today's estimated level of funding, it would only take 1,240 years to supply everyone with real call blocking technology instead of a DNC.
But with your luck, you would probably be the last person to get a Digitone call blocker.