>> Is that coming in on a landline or a cell phone?
It was on the landline. We've had the same number since 1990 so a lot of people have it and even before I changed it the CLI/directory tie up was patchy.
My mobile number is the one I got with a Motorola MR20 in 1996 so similar considerations apply.
If it's not a number I know I tend to answer with just my forename and surname in a tone that's at the brusque end of business like. That puts quite a lot of cold callers/chancers off. If it's a recorded message then there's a characteristic delay. Either way they're cut off pretty smartly and picking up the phone stops it ringing.
For quite a while our outgoing work calls showed as Private Number. Latterly they've sorted it to show the 0800 number published nationally for the service I'm working on. The vast majority of my outgoing calls are getting back to somebody with answers after research and I try to remember to say it may be an 0800 number etc. DWP, who are doing most stuff previously transacted at the Job Centre by phone, do the same.
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