Block Voice Calling
 

Hi Everyone,
Long time reader, but I have a question that I haven't been able to find an answer for.

A friend of mine has a small business with a few PPC6700's, he only uses them for data, not for voice. Therefore his plan doesn't include any voice minutes; a few of his employees have been making calls on the phone and racking up a rather large bill.
I'm a techy kinda guy so my friend asked if there was any way to disable the voice calling functionality. I didn't see any option to do this in the phone, but figured there might be a way to do this type of thing with a registry edit.

I'm not all that familiar with this device, so I was wondering if any of you knew of any registry entry I can change (or add) to disable the voice calling but keep the data calling.

Any help would be very very appreciated!


Thanks!

do you need to use text or just internet?

How about firing the next guy who makes a voice call? That should nip the problem in the bud.

Text and internet will be used, just voice calling needs to be restricted.

I told him to fire the guy too, he didn't like that idea so much. lol

Why should you have to take the time to block the voice on the phones. You can tell which phones make the calls, tell them any calls placed will be taken out of their paychecks. do it 2 times, your fired. They are adults right? i think they should understand simple commands. make a call=no job

and what carrier are you with, i think, almost sure, verizon can block certain things, such as outgoing calls on a certain line.

You might take a look at something along the lines of SPB Kiosk.

I agree with the others though. If an employee can't comply with a direct order then do you really want that person working for you? I mean really....

phone exe
 

rename or delete the phone exe i think, that would be the place to start

Magicall is a little call filtering program. You can set it so that any outgoing calls are automatically hung up. You can also password protect it so no changes can be made. If they're tech savvy, however, and really want to make calls, they'll proly just uninstall.

yeah, deleting phone.exe would be the first place i would start. Seems like a realy easy fix for stopping calls (outgoing and incoming) but shouldnt affect the data connection because i dont think it uses the phone.exe to dial out.

Instead of deleting it you can change the security policy to disallow cprog.exe. I haven't tested this so I don't know if it will work or not, but here it is

1. Enable application blacklisting
-Under [HKLM\Security\Policies\Shell] change DisallowRun from 0 to 1.

2. Add cprog.exe to the blacklist
-Under [HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Pol icies\Explorer\DisallowRun] add a new string value named "1" (without quotes) and a value of "cprog.exe" without the quotes.

Would be interesting to see if this works.