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There is a device in the UK called TrueCall which blocks spam phone calls. It does a little more than that actually, allowing certain tiers of service.
This got me thinking. How workable would it be to have a 'trusted call' connect service activated/deactivated with a * code on the handset? Night workers who want to sleep in the day at home with this, but still want to get urgent calls routed to them (school, family mobile phones etc) could set up different tiers of service to allow certain numbers and block all others sending them to voicemail.
They could then activate this, nuisance callers go to voicemail, urgent calls get through, the person gets a decent sleep without being unnecessarily disturbed and when they wake up they dial another * code to deactivate it and allow all calls.
This service could potentially work on an extension-by-extension basis, or if you have a ring group set to call all phones (as I do at home) it could be applied to a trunk and route all specified calls where you wanted depending if the service was active or not.
Multiple tiers could operate (let's say *301 for all calls routed to voicemail apart from those in a white list, *302 selects a different white list, *305 deactivates all tiers of service and routes calls as normal).
A further TrueCall feature I believe is when a person calls without any caller ID it is routed to voicemail, a message tells them the call is not being answered as there is no caller ID, it invites the person to key in their telephone number for presentation or go straight to voicemail if they don't wish to do this.
Here is the product on Amazon - http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002GP7HQM and a review - http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/fixed-line-phone-accessories/truecall-621533/review
Has anything like this been developed, and if not how easy would it be to produce?
This got me thinking. How workable would it be to have a 'trusted call' connect service activated/deactivated with a * code on the handset? Night workers who want to sleep in the day at home with this, but still want to get urgent calls routed to them (school, family mobile phones etc) could set up different tiers of service to allow certain numbers and block all others sending them to voicemail.
They could then activate this, nuisance callers go to voicemail, urgent calls get through, the person gets a decent sleep without being unnecessarily disturbed and when they wake up they dial another * code to deactivate it and allow all calls.
This service could potentially work on an extension-by-extension basis, or if you have a ring group set to call all phones (as I do at home) it could be applied to a trunk and route all specified calls where you wanted depending if the service was active or not.
Multiple tiers could operate (let's say *301 for all calls routed to voicemail apart from those in a white list, *302 selects a different white list, *305 deactivates all tiers of service and routes calls as normal).
A further TrueCall feature I believe is when a person calls without any caller ID it is routed to voicemail, a message tells them the call is not being answered as there is no caller ID, it invites the person to key in their telephone number for presentation or go straight to voicemail if they don't wish to do this.
Here is the product on Amazon - http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002GP7HQM and a review - http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/fixed-line-phone-accessories/truecall-621533/review
Has anything like this been developed, and if not how easy would it be to produce?