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There are several steps you can take to block a number on a landline phone and reduce the amount of spam calls you receive.

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Looking around at the ubiquitous proliferation of wireless smartphones, it’s easy to assume that the classic wired “landline” phone on a copper loop (thank you, Alexander Graham Bell and others) is a ...