That's wonderful, whenever I go spend some time at my grandparents in France I have to shield several stupid marketing calls per day, usually some energy company who want to make them swap tariffs. It's tiresome, but my nan refuses to go on the 'red list' just in case someone might need to look them up in the yellow pages.
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Same here, kids & jobsearching prevents me to be on a hidden list. It's always an energy crap too, like 1 dude fucking the whole country up lol.
It does make me wonder how they're going to enforce it tbh, because a lot of the time those bloody leeches outsource their telemarketing to other countries, and we know what happens don't we, as soon as a scam centre is closed another one pops up, rinse and repeat.
I'm very pleased and have been waiting years for this. The way I understand it is that they're making marketing calls explicitly opt-in, and easy to opt-out of. The non-stop calls from marketing agents stopped on July 27 for me.
There was also another change about hidden numbers that happened not too long ago which reduced the number of calls by one or two per day.
There is a list of numbers depending on your region that were registered marketing numbers. I had a filter for those, but I don't think I'll need it anymore. Any number starting with 0162, 0163, 0270, 0271, 0377, 0378, 0424, 0425, 0568, 0569, 0948 or 0949 was spam so it was easy to filter.
The punishment will be interesting to see. There are plenty of ways to report spam. Back in 2007 they said the French would never stop smoking in public places, and they did and a few people got fined for testing what would happen. Same thing will happen with this.
Edit: it is $87,000 per call. Damn.
Spoke too soon. Two spam calls this morning.
I actually went through it all once last year (oh yes I have a house, sure it's in central paris, of course I want a solar panel vendor contacting me...) and got the dude calling me, I told him about the spam calling and he was like completely taken back, he didn't know what to say, I sincerely think he didn't know him paying some publicity thing would end up like that.
Tried again but seems I'm blacklisted, not from the calls but from being called back 😅
Sorry for the rant, but enforcing it can be done like that I guess, but by the police ofc.
I've been contemplating setting my phone to block any number that I don't have saved but also setting my voicemail to explicitly state that, and to text or email or whatever. I feel like most normal people would understand how bad spam calls are and would, hopefully, try to reach you if it was important.
Any unknown number should go to voicemail (they don't leave voicemail atm) but that option doesn't exist it seems.
Hey! I've seen this one before! Called "Do Not Call List" 
Otherwise known as the published "Call me" list for every country that isn't the origin...
The exact same thing I thought of when the so useful "government" came up with it... India gives two shits about the DNC list.
I cannot wrap my head around the economics of the ad industry. They work to make your life worse in the most obnoxious and disgusting ways possible, and they - and any brand that works with then by association - are hated and reviled by that. Yet, it makes BILLIONS and companies spend billions on it.
I don't get it.
When is telemarketing solicited ?