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Author:  AlunD [ Tue Jun 09, 2009 3:45 pm ]
Post subject:  Mobile phone directory to launch
Quote:
A company will begin offering a directory service from next week that allows people to find the mobile phone numbers of people they don't know.

Run by 118800, it will cost £1 and use databases of numbers it said are freely available for purchase and in the public domain.

Anyone searching for a number can type the name and location of the person into the 118800 website.

It claims to have some 15m numbers in its database.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/working_lunch/8091621.stm
Not good definitely not good :shock:
Author:  saspro [ Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:00 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Mobile phone directory to launch
If they don't provide an opt out they'll be hearing from my lawyer.
Author:  HeatherKay [ Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:01 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Mobile phone directory to launch
saspro wrote:
If they don't provide an opt out they'll be hearing from my lawyer.


+1
Author:  AlunD [ Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:02 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Mobile phone directory to launch
Happily I'm not in it :D
Author:  Linux_User [ Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:03 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Mobile phone directory to launch
HeatherKay wrote:
saspro wrote:
If they don't provide an opt out they'll be hearing from my lawyer.


+1


+2
Author:  DaftFunk [ Tue Jun 09, 2009 5:24 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Mobile phone directory to launch
+3

perhaps this should be an opt in, could you imagine how many crank calls and texts we'll be subjected to? I can imagine the directory's being shipped off to those dodgy phone-jacker countries.
Author:  paulzolo [ Tue Jun 09, 2009 6:02 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Mobile phone directory to launch
+4

EDIT: I can’t find me on it. :-)
Author:  Linux_User [ Tue Jun 09, 2009 6:43 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Mobile phone directory to launch
I was on it. :evil: I have opted-out. :twisted:
Author:  okenobi [ Tue Jun 09, 2009 6:58 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Mobile phone directory to launch
I don't appear to be there either.

Do you have to have been a numpty in the past and agreed to be on somebody's list?
Author:  cloaked_wolf [ Tue Jun 09, 2009 7:57 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Mobile phone directory to launch
I like to control who I give my number out to. I like my number and intend to keep it (as I have done for the last eight years). I don't want some moron trying to get ahold of me (work in a hospital).
Author:  paulzolo [ Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:30 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Mobile phone directory to launch
You can opt out:
http://www.118800.co.uk/faqs.html#privacy
Author:  big_D [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 7:30 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Mobile phone directory to launch
The mobile phones have been in the normal directory here, since they were introduced. When you take out a contract, you elect whether the number should be included in the directory or not.
Author:  Fogmeister [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:29 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Mobile phone directory to launch
Umm... has anyone tried using it yet?

It doesn't seem to give out the mobile phone numbers like it has been suggested.

I tried to search for me and it said it would send the person I am looking for a text with my telephone number to let them know I would like to get in touch.

i.e. it is up to the person you are searching for to call you back or text you.
Author:  paulzolo [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:44 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Mobile phone directory to launch
Fogmeister wrote:
Umm... has anyone tried using it yet?

It doesn't seem to give out the mobile phone numbers like it has been suggested.

I tried to search for me and it said it would send the person I am looking for a text with my telephone number to let them know I would like to get in touch.

i.e. it is up to the person you are searching for to call you back or text you.


So, I have to pay to receive a call from someone I probably don’t know?
Author:  Fogmeister [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:37 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Mobile phone directory to launch
paulzolo wrote:
Fogmeister wrote:
Umm... has anyone tried using it yet?

It doesn't seem to give out the mobile phone numbers like it has been suggested.

I tried to search for me and it said it would send the person I am looking for a text with my telephone number to let them know I would like to get in touch.

i.e. it is up to the person you are searching for to call you back or text you.


So, I have to pay to receive a call from someone I probably don’t know?

No, that would be stupid.

Say you want to find my number.

You go to the website and put my name and home town in. If it can find me you then enter YOUR mobile number and name. It will then charge YOU £1 and send ME a text with your details saying you want to get in touch with me.

It is then up to me to text or call you if I want to speak to you.

If it charged the person you are looking for then you could search thousands of times and give someone a huge bill.
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