What new prefixes have to use and what happens to the calls foreigners

Let’s tell you What new changes apply to commercial calls From now on, specifically since Saturday, June 7. From now on, spam calls can no longer be made from mobile numbers, and will have to use special prefixes.

In this article we will review what changes in this type of calls, so that you know what the new standard says and what are The good and bad news. We will tell you what are the new prefixes, and then we will tell you to what extent this ends with spam calls and what happens to phone calls.

Commercial call prefixes

Until now, when an unknown phone number calls you, you didn’t have a way of knowing if it was a call from someone or simple advertising. Because spam calls also use mobile numbers so that we do not identify them, and so that we tend more to take them.

From now on, Commercial calls must use 800 and 900 prefixes. This means that from now on they can no longer use mobile phone numbers to make spam calls, but will have to use numbers with these special prefixes.

Not all who call you from these prefixes will be called spamsince they can be used for customer service or technical services of companies. But we go, in general, to be able to identify the possible commercial calls because They start for 8 and 9 and not at 6it can be a help.

Does this end with spam calls?

No. Unfortunately, in this fight against telephone spam, companies that use these little ethical methods often tend to look for ways to skip the law. First is the consent: If you have given permission without knowing it To make you make commercial calls, or if you have a contract with this company, then they have the right to call you advertising.

There is also the legitimate interestbecause if a company is going to offer you a way to improve a service that we already have with it, or to offer us discounts, then it can be considered as a desired communication, and not as an unwanted.

And you may also simply skip the law. A company can try to continue using telephone numbers for spam, and will correspond to operators to block the numbers that do not correspond to users or services.

What about calls from outside Spain

If a foreign company calls with a prefix from your countryand that evidence that it is an outside call, then they can continue to do so without being forced to use these prefixes. In the end, this regulation only applies to calls within Spain.

But if a foreign company uses Spanish telephone numbersthen the operators have the obligation to block the calls. They have to block those calls that simulate a national identifier without being. Of course, many companies can take their switchboards abroad to continue doing telephone campaigns without these prefixes of 800 and 900, although foreigners should use.