The phone company is a dinosaur

Get with it, AT&T!

In the past few weeks, I’ve been getting a lot of “anonymous” telemarketing calls on my wireline phone. As a general rule, if someone calls me, and their phone number doesn’t show up in Caller ID, it’s not someone I want to talk to.

Can I have the calls blocked? Yes. AT&T offers a service called “Anonymous Call Rejection,” for $5 per month. Okay, I’ll sign up for it.

The order confirmation page says that the service will be installed on Monday, Nov. 24. I signed up today, Thursday, Nov. 20. What the heck? Why would it take four days for AT&T’s software to flip a provisioning bit?

It’s another reason why people are yanking the wireline and just using their mobiles, or using VoIP over cable. Sheesh.