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This phone set had a cordless phone integrated on a fax/copier. I have owned two different Telezappers and have been pleased with them. The smaller, slender model (the picture will fool you, it's really small.). I tried to email Royal Appliances about this, but when I used their web site, I got "page not found."
If you purchase phones of different brands, but similar to this type unit, it may not work well with the Telezapper. I think it has to do with the cordless phone not being integrated with the base unit. This phone set has a "base unit" with copy and fax, and the phone is a separate unit, plugged into an electrical outlet, operating on a "wireless" from the base. The telezapper "tone" is delayed to the point where it is ineffective.
Also, the larger model (the one with the cord) emits only the first tone of the SIT. I recently purchased a Panasonic Phone/Fax/Copier model KX-FG6550 and the Telezapper does not work with this phone set. The larger model uses an electric cord. No problems, worked great.
I previously used both models on a Panasonic Phone/Fax/Copier model KX-FPC95. uses a CR2030 battery. The smaller model (the one with the battery) gives you a choice of either the first tone of the SIT or the entire 3 note sequence, which is more effective.
Looking at the info on your site makes me believe they are no longer effective. Anyone have any newer information. A year or two ago we decided our Telezapper ( which had served us well) was dead and threw it away, planning to repalce it. The most recent comment was posted in 2003. There is no point in spending even a small amount of money and taking up space on my desk for something that no longer has a purpose. When I couldn't find one at Radio Shack, I kind of forgot about it. We have been bothered lately by a lot of telemarketers so I resumed shopping.
Castel chief executive Geoff Burr labels as "unsophisticated" dialers that succumb to privacy devices. A more effective means of blocking sales calls lies with the emerging federal Do Not Call list as well as similar lists kept by some two dozen U.S. Castel Inc., a maker of automated dialing technology, boasts that its DirectQuest software is immune to the TeleZapper, a. The device is designed to trick predictive dialers into dropping the call by playing the three shrill tones of a disconnected number.
___ Castel's software is built for the high-volume "predictive dialers" that use multiple lines to phone residential numbers and connect salesmen to people who answer. Telemarketing advocates fear Do Not Call lists could devastate those revenues and the jobs that depend on them. News that came out 2/26/03:New Telemarketing Tool Trumps TeleZapper NEW YORK - A telemarketing tool that penetrates home privacy defenses is upping the ante in a technology battle between sales callers and consumers seeking shelter from unsolicited calls. The article estimated that the top 75 U.S.
The Federal Trade Commission has said its Do Not Call list will begin collecting names this summer and be in operation by the fall. At 4 cents a minute, that amounts to $528 million in telecommunications revenue. Elicker said privacy gadgets don't just thwart telemarketers but also bill collectors who use predictive dialers. The privacy services sold by phone companies target another weakness of the predictive dialer - their inability to transmit caller ID. Royal Electronics Inc., which manufactures the TeleZapper, says millions of them have been sold. Beverly, Mass.-based Castel has been mailing brochures to telemarketers and other prospective customers touting the software, which also includes a feature that lets salesmen transmit any phone number or text message to residents' caller ID displays. Do not buy the TeleZapper. "Collections people want to make damn certain they're not fooled by these kinds of devices," he said.
"Serious professional operations don't use that equipment - or they won't be for long," he said. Telemarketers who phone listed numbers can be fined up to $11,000 for each violation. "The industry is crowing that 'We don't want to call people that don't want to be called,' and at the same time it's calling them." Consumer privacy devices will increasingly lose effectiveness as telemarketing firms switch to the new dialing technology - which costs roughly $2,700 per calling operator, said Bulmash. It has essentially been rendered obsolete. states, Burr said. State lists, too, often make exemptions for funeral homes and car dealers. That second component allows DirectQuest to dodge such phone company privacy services as SBC's Privacy Manager and Sprint's Privacy ID, both of which reject calls that don't provide caller ID information. Predictive dialers fueled huge growth in the telemarketing.
The software also helps elemarketers mind federal guidelines that require accurate and descriptive caller IDs, said Burr. This is from an article on Yahoo. businesses and consumers. Instead of listening for sounds that identify the status of a phone line, DirectQuest learns the line's condition by reading signals from phone company computers, said Walter Elicker, Castel's marketing director. No agency can prevent phone calls by political campaigns, charities and surveyors. Effectiveness of Do Not Call lists, at least for now, is a pipe dream, Bulmash said.
A Federal Communications Commission (news - web sites) memo says telemarketers attempt 104 million calls a day to U.S. telemarketing firms paid for 13.2 billion minutes of long-distance phone service last year.
An article in the February issue of Customer Inter@ction Solutions, a telemarketing industry magazine, said FTC restrictions could eliminate three million jobs. By providing the identity of the company on behalf of which the telemarketer is calling, DirectQuest gives people the option not to take the call.
Sales revenue rose from about $435 billion in 1990 to around $660 billion in 2001. gadget designed to thwart sales calls by faking the tones of a disconnected number.
The FTC doesn't regulate telemarketing-heavy industries like long-distance phone companies, banks, airlines and insurance companies. "If you're an operator that calls on behalf of MasterCard, you're supposed to put out 'MasterCard' and a number that gets to MasterCard," he said.
"It's a privacy arms race," said Robert Bulmash of the privacy group Private Citizen, based in Naperville, Ill. Burr said DirectQuest is not aimed at bothering consumers, but the opposite - making sales calls less intrusive.
The number of calls is down dramatically. It's such a good feeling.
Still, we are ever so pleased to have made the investment. But, it won't stop direct dial solicitors, and the beep can be disconcerting to those unfamiliar with the device.
We've had the Zapper for many months. Hot damn - zapped another one.
The dividends are reaped every night. Before it was installed we got several calls a day/evening.
Now, the phone will ring and when you pick it up all you hear is the line going dead and a dial tone.
The state where I live, MN, just got a do not call list, which I think will work better than the Telezapper, old or new. This model helped cut down on marketing calls quite a bit, but I still get at least one per night. The new model is a lot better, but I'm not going to buy that one.
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