Why doesn't Iphone have a call blocker, I am getting tired of paying for phone scam calls, why dpesn't someone make one. When my contract is up I am going back to the Droid.

It's academic, since for virtually every carrier's plan, there is no "long distance" charge when calling inside the lower 48.

thanks for the interesting info wjosten. seems we are lucky in the UK not having to pay for incoming calls.

Not as bad as it seems, like Tim, my wife & I are on a similiar plan with AT&T, we have so many roll-over minutes, I doub't we'll ever use them all. In essence, calling minutes are a non-issue. This, of couse, is not true for some folks, but it is what it is.

I pay £16 ($25) a month for 200 minutes, 500MB data/tethering, unlimited texts + unlimited calls to 5 nominated mobile numbers. My wife is on Pay-As-You-Go and credits her phone with £10 ($15) every 6-8 weeks, and gets 100 free minutes plus the £10 as call time and unlimited texts. She doesn't use data. We get free calls between us and our 4 most called friends so never go over the minutes allowance.

You can block callers just talk to your carrier.

You still have a landline? I, like Tim, no longer have a landline...in fact I don't know anyone(except my Wife's mother) that does.

I still have a landline as my ADSL Internet connection requires it, but rarely use it for calls except international calls as we get free calls to 36 countries. Our broadband internet plus line "rental" and all landline calls is about £18-20 a month.

Interesting differences. Well, I guess we've hijacked the OP's thread enough 😎.

My apologies to the OP!

My apologies to the OP!

I wouldn't worry too much. He's probably on his way out to buy a Droid.

We seem to have leveled off with about 12,000 rollover minutes in the 'bank', give or take. They accumulate at about the same rate that they roll off. My mother is the only person I can think of within my circle who still has a landline. Her husband isn't well, and they have an AT&T micro-cell in the house because then get absolutely no cell coverage from anyone where there are. About a 1 mile diameter black hole surrounds them. The micro-cell works well, but it's just too risky to go without a hardwired phone for them right now.

Stevefobsfan is probably right. The OP probably ran down to Best Buy for a droid.

Julian, FWIW, we used to have to have a land line to get DSL service, but that requirement is pretty much history now. If they enforced it, the telcos would lose all their customers to the cable TV operators providing Internet service. I tried it for a while. Sure, the speeds were awesome... sometimes. During peak hours, though, they would plummet when every schoolkid in the neighborhood came home and cranked up their bit-torrent clients to download some P**N... DSL may be slower, but at least it's consistent.

I've actually been through the whole cycle with DSL here. When it first became available, it could not be on the same pair as a voice line. Had to be a second drop from the CO. Then they combined them, then they allowed you to split them again. What a roller coaster.