The Orange Telephone application detected more than 120 million spam calls last year. If your Bloctel subscription works only moderately, or not at all, the operator provides users with rather effective tools to protect themselves.

Orange, the number 1 operator in France, reports that it detected or blocked more than 120 million unwanted calls in 2021. Telephone spam is a technique that is still widely used and this figure illustrates that the Bloctel anti-soliciting service shows serious limitations in filtering unwanted calls.

Orange Telephone, a very practical application for making and receiving calls

For Orange, this data is an opportunity to highlight its Orange Telephone application, which can replace the native Google Telephone application Android smartphones. It is through this that the operator detected these famous 120 million spam calls. This means that in reality, there have been many more since not all French people have Orange Telephone installed on their terminal.

The application offers an anti-spam and unwanted call blocking function. The user is warned before picking up if it is a “potentially malicious” call or canvassing, which there is a good chance that he does not want to answer. It is also possible to manually enter a number into the system to automatically block any call from it.

Orange Telephone can also be useful thanks to its reverse directory. Thanks to a partnership with 118712, it is possible to know the identity of a professional number that calls us before picking up. And in the event of a call to a surcharged number, the app warns the user that he is liable to pay additional costs in order to avoid unpleasant surprises. The exact amount of per-minute charges is even indicated.

Finally, a list of emergency numbers for the country you are in is available from the interface. In short, if you don't know, know that the Orange Phone app is really complete and practical to replace the very basic native app to which we are entitled on Android.