A very detailed response that answered a question that no one asked. No one mentioned giving their # out and no one asked about blocking calls, just unwanted text messaging.

Changing numbers; sounds fun….but look at it from the legitimate point of view. The “business” front: If you were to invest billions into a mapping prog. *maps.gooogle and anyone who saw fit could remove themselves from the register, *read most people: then what would you have? A billion dollar pet project. Your investors would be peaked, and you would be jobless.

No one you hire for phone service is interested in you having any control over who calls you. ANY control. Read that through twice more.

These guys have been in ($ BILLION) contracts before you even considered phones, less a particular virtual number which you control ZERO rights to. Seriously; when you were 5 years old they had designs on Switzerland. Phone sales are a multi-billion dollar industry alone, and much of this involves vast customer databases fuled by ignorant consumers willing to dish out personal information (phone numbers/addresses) to anyone who offers them a boat in some type of lottery. Or, in many cases: A FREE PHONE! Wow!

You CANNOT effect who calls YOU; only who YOU CALL. You do NOT own the number you have told all of your friends is yours. You are merely leasing it from your provider. Read the freakin contract. No, they do not care about you. They do not love your cat, and they do not notice when you spend your birthday alone. They; despite the mailings, do not care about you or your silly little struggle. They only want to UPGRADE you to a data plan, that they can then *unknowingly release/record your extraneous email information. It has always been about the control of information, only now is it so obvious.

My highest hope is that I have not discouraged you from seeking freedom. Anonymity is not a shield from the known, but a plane from which to launch something/anything new. Our phones should be an ‘extension of ourselves’ . . . and not something we consider when turning down the lights.

And the solution….Any perpetuated campaign requires money. Without money your front lacks the impression of fortitude, this in time will eat away your belief, your morale, and ultimately your resolve for the *cause. The phone companies understand this. (smile) If we wish to bleed the beast that assails us, we must let it find us. Change the ringers/notifications on your phones for the beloved, to silent or ‘stealth’ ringers; those with no noise or vibration. Change the ones you desire to something you will recognize, and ONLY answer them. Let the rest pass, catch the voicemails of those who are worthy. The remaining assault will crash against the seawall. If we all do this in number, we cannot be ignored. I love you, that is all.

those unwanted messages sent to your phone from another persons phone are impossible to block or prevent, all you can do is all the phone company every month and demand they remove the charges for those unwanted messages.

Hope this helps!