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Mon 02 Feb 2009Most phone customers opt to block direct marketing calls
DIRECT MARKETING companies have now been banned from phoning more than 61 per cent of landline customers to try to sell them goods or services.
Telecommunications regulator ComReg said that 982,238 people had contacted their phone providers to tell them that they did not want to receive direct marketing calls. There are 1.6 million fixed telephone lines in the State.
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