The Time Warner Lie:
You contact Time Warner to set up telephone service. And they ask you listed or unlisted. You sign up for a blocked number and are assured an unlisted number.

The service is set up. They change your number from listed to unlisted . . . They then sell your listing. Then you call them because your getting telemarketers calling 24/7. They say "oh . . . we made a mistake" pay us the fee you originally paid to assure your number would be unlisted to unlist it. And we will make sure your number stays unlisted. By then. Your information is already compromised. Your numbers have already been floated out and are in dozens of peoples hands who sell and re-sell the information. So changing your number back to unlisted means absolutely nothing.

To add insult to injury. You tell them you want a new number. Because they compromised the first. Profiting off the front and back end. Charging you to assure it is unlisted. Then selling it. Then charing you again to take care of something they can no longer even control . . . you ask for a new number. And they say it is $20.

This kind of stuff is highly suspect. There are people who live and die by keeping their information private. They did it to me. And they have some of the filthiest loopers in the business to keep you deflecting. I was about to just wash my hands and call a lawyer to have it cleared up.

I do not trust them one iota. If you pay for an unlisted number. And they list it. You have no chance of getting your privacy back to pay them to unlist it again. It takes several hours on the phone. But they should change your number for free.

It is getting to be really a weird time in America. There are not alot of alternatives out there. Business is so big. But it is getting to the point that you literally need an attorney to set up phone service.

Some of the laws they are violating are privacy laws. And there are and should be some big penalties. Personally. I hope they get nabbed by a big lawsuit. As I have no doubt this crap is intentional.