Great point Sieghard! As a retiree of the former AT&T this should have been obvious to me. Somehow though, I had never given the thought much consideration. ---- Holland's Boy, Bill - "With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another." - German Aphorist, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799) ----- Original Message ----- From: Sieghard Weitzel To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 1:21 PM Subject: RE: blocking calls
Hi Bill and Isaac, Yes, blocked callers still reach your iPhone, but as you experienced, they are directly forwarded to voice mail. To me it is obvious that this would have to be so since it is an iOS feature and not a carrier feature. Apple is a big and probably influential company, but not every carrier in the world would immediately block all the numbers every iPhone user puts on their blocked caller list. That would mean Apple would somehow communicate this list to whoever your carrier is and they would have to block these numbers at the switch level at no cost to the user. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bill Gallik Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 8:43 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: blocking calls When I installed iOS 7.0 onto my iPhone5 and discovered the "Block Caller" feature in Contacts I decided to try blocking my home phone from my mobile account. What resulted when I attempted to call my mobile phone from my home phone is that I was placed immediately into Voice Mail with no indication from the iPhone that my home phone had ever tried to call. I figured, "Good Enough." Then, after receiving several calls that got "normally" routed to my Voice Mail, I went into the "Voice Mail" tab for the phone app. What I found there was that the call from my home phone had been routed into a "Blocked Callers" list. I could choose to listen to the message or delete it without any further attention being paid to it. This "Block Caller" feature is not like the block caller features implemented at the switches. With my Charter Communications landline telephone service I can identify telephone numbers to quite literally block. And if you call your mobile provider and ask them to block a telephone number, it will indeed be blocked in that you'll never know that number ever attempted to contact you. This "Block Caller" on iOS 7.??? devices isn't quite that omnipotent, but at least you never really have to deal with said calls (or voice mails) if you choose to not do so. ---- Holland's Boy, Bill - "With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another." - German Aphorist, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799) ----- Original Message ----- From: isaac To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 10:03 AM Subject: Re: blocking calls So what you are saying is that when you block the caller it really doesn’t block the caller? I thought when you block a caller they can’t iMessage call or FaceTime you. On Jan 27, 2014, at 9:50 AM, Bill Gallik <wfgal...@charter.net> wrote: Tom; When you say, "blocking calls," just exactly what do you mean? And what exactly do you mean when you say this isn't working? When I block calls the calling party is placed immediately into my voice mail to leave a message. 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