Advantages: Free, Easy to Setup
Disadvantages: Can block calls you might want; cannot stop Text messages

...The TPS (http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/) is an 'opt in to opt out' service..... You can also call to register on 0845 070 0707 The UK, for whatever wisdom, has determined that you may register you preference to not receive those frustrating 'cold' calls from sales and marketing companies. Note - unless you actively opt out via this service, you are deemed to have opted in if *any* company has legitimately acquired your contact details !!!! The Data Protection Act stops much of your personal details being passed around without you permission, but how many times have you carefully read those tiny messages on forms and ticked the box to stop this? Did you know that there is no regulation that says you have a consistent tick to opt in or opt out? One tick might stop your telephone number and personal details being passed on... Read review

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Advantages: Inexpensive to buy. (Shop around) Brilliant clarity. Lots of useful features.
Disadvantages: Not a lot!

...~ ~ Having recently installed a new wireless broadband system I was keen to investigate the possibility of getting rid of my old hard-wired telephone system entirely. Especially since Eircom, the main telephone supplier here in the Republic of Ireland for years, were the main reason I had waited 6 years or more to obtain broadband in the first place, the antiquated copper wire connections they supplied to my property being totally unable to sustain a standard DSL broadband connection. So imagine my delight when I came across a new VoIP telephone service here in Ireland called "blueface.ie" (review to follow) which allows me to make unlimited calls to land lines in Ireland, the UK, The European Union, the USA and Canada, and Australia and New Zealand for a flat rate payment of only €24.99 per month. ~ ~ But subscribing to this new... Read review

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Advantages: MP3, MultiMediaCard, rigorous dictaphone, metal body and rich complete set
Disadvantages: Price, low data rate

...Is this simple mobile telephone? I think, that no. Actually we have: MP3 player, digital dictaphone, organizer, which is "friends" with Outlook, portable information carrier and plus to this also GSM 900/1800 telephone. And all this in compact, smooth aluminum body. However, let's be pass under the order. Complete set of delivery SL45 is delivered in a translucent plastic box. By opening it, it is possible to detect inside following things: - telephone with MultiMediaCard 32Mb, - standard Li-ion the battery 540mAh, - charge device, - instruction in various languages, - brief brochure with trial functions, - CD with software, - stereoheadphones with a microphone and button, - cradle, - cable for connection to COM port. The set is excellent, everything, that is necessary, is present. The instruction is written... Read review

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Advantages: Stops them calling
Disadvantages: Sad buggers like me like to get junkmail

...and says conspiratorially, “Excuse me sor, but me an the lads ‘ave got a bit of the old black stuff left over from workin’ on the M1 an’ sure wouldn’t it look fine an’ dandy on yer drive?”, then I’m afraid I can’t help you. However, woe betide the same fellow if he telephones, sends you a letter, FAX or E-mail. Oh yes, the DMA’ll have his guts for garters if he does that, don’t you worry. That’s always assuming of course that they ever found him… DMA? The Direct Marketing Association, that’s who the DMA is. They’ve got a spiffy little website called www.dma.org.uk and you can schlep over there and avail yourself of their preference service free and for gratis. How about that then? Actually, there are five preference services to choose from...