This is a deduction on my part so take it for what it's worth. But i still thought people might want to know about this.

I recently (3 months ago) purchased a speak out phone, the sole purpose of this phone was as a buzzer phone for my building as my building requires a phone number for the system to call to allow you to buzz people in to the building.

The only person who knows the phone number is the building manager so he could put it in the system.

No one else was given this phone number by me at all.

From the day i activated the phone i have received 4-5 telemarketing calls (automated) per day. The phone never stops ringing.

There are 4 possibilities as to how these telemarketers got that phone number.

1) The building i live in sold the phone number to telemarketers.

I have spoken to other people in the building and none of them have experienced this problem with their cell phones or home phones that they are using for the buzzer system. so i doubt this is the case.

2)All of these telemarketing companies are connected or somehow randomly came up with my phone number on that phone and started calling it the same day i activated it (unlikely)

3)The phone number was in the database and they were actively calling it even though no one was answering it even before i got the phone and it just continued (possible)

4) Or the most troublesome… 7-11 speak out sells your phone number to telemarketing companies. IF this is the case it is bad enough that the company that supplies you with a phone number then sells it to other companies to telemarket to you. BUT even worse that it is a pay as you go phone. As the telemarketing companies burn up your minutes every time you accidently answer them.

You can come to your own conclusions regarding this, or perhaps speak out can address this and put our minds at ease. while i ask that you remember this is just an educated guess and i hope that i am wrong, it is something that people should certainly think about when considering buying a speak out phone.

It's quite possible that i somehow missed a section of the terms of agreement that allow them to sell my information to telemarketers but i thought i read it all pretty carefully.

This is the likely reason. The numbers are recycled.