I tracked them down. Peerless Network of Wisconsin LLC, headquartered in Chicago. Found their website and under 'contact us', sent them an unfriendly message instructing them to stop calling my home. Appears they are a wireless communications company- may be in competition with Verizon and Comcast (cable companies), and others, vying for their business.
Peerless Network, Inc.
222 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 2730
Chicago, IL 60606
312-506-0920 (main number)
888-380-2721 (toll free)
312-506-0931 (fax)
---> jasmine jumped to the conclusion, "I tracked them down. ... Appears they are a wireless communications company- may be in competition with Verizon and Comcast (cable companies), ... vying for their business." <---
No, you are wrong. Peerless Network is a data center that provides SIP trunking for VOIP providers.
http://www.peerlessnetwork.com/enterprise-service/sip-trunking/
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIP_Trunking
Often, all Peerless Network does is provision telephone numbers to other companies. Many times, their provisioned number is all that is used -- their network may not even be used to deliver the call in question.
That said, they do have a complaint department and will notify the customer (which may be another phone provider using Peerless Network to obtain numbers to assign to its own customers) when they receive complaints. They also appear to be quite cooperative in accepting subpoenas for subcriber information from courts. See
http://www.peerlessnetwork.com/information-center/do-not-call-lists/
and
http://www.peerlessnetwork.com/wp-content/upl ... f-Subpoenas.pdf
So, while your cursory search is not completely useless, I am quite certain that you did not find the caller or identify his motive by performing it.
Would you be good enough to translate your message into layman's terms for the average readers? (and that would be me) The rest of us mere mortals may not understand your technical lingo.
Like the other posters, I'm merely trying to stop these people from calling my home continually. It seems my research truly was only cursory- you seem to know so much more about them, but I do not understand your explanation of who they are, what they do, and what that has to do with me. "Explain it to me like I'm a 2 year old." (Denzel Washington: "Philadelphia")
Just went on the donotcall link that ANonie provided, and it is now clear to me what these people do. They just provide telephone numbers for companies to use, correct? Peerless is not the actual company who is calling my home 3-4 times a day. I have submitted the # in question to them and they will leave a do not call request with the calling party. Received the following auto reply from Peerless:
"Thank you for contacting us and we apologize for your inconvenience. Please note that we are not the company calling you, however, we can notify the calling party that you should be taken off their calling list. Please allow 3 business days for your request to be processed. If you continue to receive calls after three business days, please let us know promptly. Thank you - Peerless Network Customer Service"