BT, a firm which makes considerable profits from billions of unwanted telephone sales calls now wants to fill its boots stopping some of them reaching their targets.

The BT 6500 is a handset that BT say will block 80% of the marketing calls, often from outside the UK and with number withheld, and costs £44.99. Apparently BT’s clever marketeers got the idea from the 50,000+ calls it gets every month to its nuisance call advice line.

Rumours that BT’s next marketing move is a very expensive system for telephone marketeers that gets calls past its new device, should be treated, in our view, as a real possibility, so watch this space….