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yak
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Cox "Selective Call Rejection" lets me stop 29 numbers from calling me.
I saw ads for telephones (Panasonic and Uniden) that have the capacity to reject as many as 200 numbers. Last year i called Cox support and asked if my Cox Call Rejection would clash with the Panasonic Call Rejection. The Cox technician said that he was not positive but he thought that they would clash. So i didn't buy the phone.
Rejecting 29 numbers is not nearly enough. Do you have any ideas about rejecting more numbers? ( i am on the Do Not Call list but today's paper said that there were 2.2 million complaints in 2013 that the DNC list is not working).
Has anyone bought the phones with 200 rejections? Any problems? Any recommendations about which phones work best?
kboy24
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I have the panasonics and they work great. I can only block 30 numbers now but maybe the newer ones are better. The way mine works is you receive a call, let it ring or answer it then display after the call and add to callblock list. Doesn't work with #s that say "private" as there's no digits to block and that is where I need cox help. But *** yeah get the panasonics. Only need 1 phonejack for the corded phone and you can add cordless handsets that just plug into 110 outlets. Up to 5 or 6...
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yak
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@kboy, thanks. I went shopping last year for the Panasonic but it only let me reject 30 numbers. Only 1 more than the 29 that i already get with Cox. I would have bought it if i could "combine" the 30 plus the 29. Have you tried combining your Panasonic with the Cox "reject" feature (sounds like you have not)?
In the newspaper there was an article saying that the newest model phones can "reject" 200 numbers. 29 is not enough. I get 29 telemarketers in one week.
But you have helped me. If your Panasonic phone works to reject numbers and you are a Cox customer, i don't have to worry about a conflict between the services. The Cox technician warned me that there might be a conflict.
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Health_Edge
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Anom Call Rejection and Selective Call rejection shouldn't conflict with any similar feature of the phone.
Anom call rejection will block any number which the person on the other end has used the feature to "block" their caller ID. This is different from callers that have no caller ID, or have fake caller ID, or who have masked caller ID, like telemarketers. It basically only blocks prank phone callers who don't want you to see their number.
Selective Call rejection can only block phone numbers that reach your phone with actual numbers in the caller ID. It compares those numbers to any numbers in your rejection list. The panasonic phones would work in the same way, so they would compliment each other. You could block 30 phone numbers from even reaching your phones using Cox's selective block, and then block additional 200 numbers that reach your phone using the phone's feature. This would still let numbers that come up as "unknown" and with no number, come through.
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