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The communications regulator has vowed to find ways to trace mystery companies that make nuisance marketing calls. Ofcom said the work would also include a further crackdown on silent and abandoned calls. These are calls which are made from an automated machine, but are silent or play a recorded message if an operator is not available when it is answered. In February 2011, the maximum fine for regularly making these silent or abandoned calls was raised to £2m. The regulator has issued fines for those breaking the rules but has now said that this compliance should be stepped up.....Read more on this story: BBC News - Ofcoms fresh vow to halt nuisance calls
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