FPL blocks anonymous calls?

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FPL blocks anonymous calls?

Post by bfly »

Just noticed lately that my line blocks anonymous callers, is this a feature or something? If a feature, hope there is an option there to let people to choose whether to block those calls or not.

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Re: FPL blocks anonymous calls?

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We don't do any call filtering from our end. Perhaps something is setup in your ATA that's doing this?
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Re: FPL blocks anonymous calls?

Post by cu2o2o2 »

bfly wrote:Just noticed lately that my line blocks anonymous callers, is this a feature or something? If a feature, hope there is an option there to let people to choose whether to block those calls or not.

Thanks.
If you have a Linksys ATA, you probably keyed *77. Press *87 to deactivate call blocking of anonymous callers.

Personally, I have activated the call blocking of anonymous callers as I believe that a call with a good intent should not hide behind blocked numbers.

P.S. I do not block my caller ID on any of my calls even though the feature is available. :)
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Re: FPL blocks anonymous calls?

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FPL-steve wrote:We don't do any call filtering from our end. Perhaps something is setup in your ATA that's doing this?
I have used DID together with VOIP provider, no problem. Only notice lately with FPL, probably pbxes.org does it, will check it.
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Re: FPL blocks anonymous calls?

Post by bfly »

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If you have a Linksys ATA, you probably keyed *77. Press *87 to deactivate call blocking of anonymous callers.

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Tried that, seems did not work for me. perhaps the problem is from pbxes.org? will check on that. Thanks.