Cold calling may be more than just simply a nuisance

ACCORDING TO REPORTS, the local medical emergency center in Ningbo, East China's Zhejiang province, received more than 1,600 calls from realty sales representatives from April to May, which poses a risk to those who need help in emergencies. Thepaper.cn comments:

Medical emergency hotlines are of utmost importance to society. To those in emergencies, it may be a matter of life and death. Those who called the medical emergency center so frequently are suspected of threatening public security. They have broken the law, and the local police and judiciary have to perform their duty in such instances.

After the emergency center called the police, the four realty companies that had acquired lists of local telephone numbers and kept calling the emergency center were told by the local telecom authorities to cease further calls, and they received other punishments such as the suspension of official registration of apartments under their names.