Comment Re:Cell Phone Number (Score 0, Troll) 543
I work for AT&T _Wireless_ (to be pedantic, AT&T doesn't provide cellular service). Your implication that we sell or disseminate your mobile phone numbers to telemarketers sullies ATT Wireless' good name based on groundless, rash supposition.
Here are some plausible alternative explanations for how your mom could get telemarketing calls on her cellphone:
1. _She_ (not ATT Wireless) gave it to someone who gave it to someone...
2. Someone who had her number before her did #1. Numbers are recycled (thrown back into the pool) so this is entirely possible. The likelihood of this depends on how long she's had the number.
3. A telmarketing organization just guessed at the number, perhaps at random, and found that it works. Number prefixes are not a secret and autodialers could most certainly try numbers within an NPA-NXX range until they hit pay dirt. I don't know if this is used in practice but there's nothing stopping them from doing so if they decide to disobey the law prohibiting them from doing so.
You should probably start by sending e-mail to privacy@attws.com for someone to investigate the merits of your claim rather than air this dirty laundry in public. You could also have her call Customer Care at 611. This has never happened to me in about 7 years of having ATT Wireless service but I have heard of other cases, so Customer Care is probably well equipped to assist you.
Here are some plausible alternative explanations for how your mom could get telemarketing calls on her cellphone:
1. _She_ (not ATT Wireless) gave it to someone who gave it to someone...
2. Someone who had her number before her did #1. Numbers are recycled (thrown back into the pool) so this is entirely possible. The likelihood of this depends on how long she's had the number.
3. A telmarketing organization just guessed at the number, perhaps at random, and found that it works. Number prefixes are not a secret and autodialers could most certainly try numbers within an NPA-NXX range until they hit pay dirt. I don't know if this is used in practice but there's nothing stopping them from doing so if they decide to disobey the law prohibiting them from doing so.
You should probably start by sending e-mail to privacy@attws.com for someone to investigate the merits of your claim rather than air this dirty laundry in public. You could also have her call Customer Care at 611. This has never happened to me in about 7 years of having ATT Wireless service but I have heard of other cases, so Customer Care is probably well equipped to assist you.
