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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 09:30 PST
- From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: No Caller-ID in Texas
- Reply-To: John Higdon <john@zygot.ati.com>
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- edsr!gwr@uunet.UU.NET (George Rapp) writes:
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- > The major point of contention was not the privacy issue, as it has
- > been in other states, but the Texas state law that prohibits attaching
- > "wiretap" or "trap and trace" devices to phone lines.
-
- Actually, it probably IS the "privacy" issue, but the activists are
- simply (successfully) using another law to further the cause. Another
- state, Pennsylvania, has already beat Texas to the punch on this one
- with a similar ruling.
-
- > Telemarketers and ACLU privacy fanatics, rejoice -- you win.
- > {grumble, grumble} (I'm not happy about this ... 8^)
-
- On a personal note: I have a simple application that requires
- Caller-ID. It is not available in California at this time. What do I
- do? I order direct trunks from a long distance carrier, install 800
- numbers that provide real-time ANI delivery, and proceed with my
- application. The ANI delivery gives me, in effect, universal
- non-blockable Caller-ID. Of course the expense is much higher than
- Caller-ID would have been, but that just proves my point that denying
- CPID to residential users merely keeps out of the average user's hands
- what is available to any business with the money.
-
- For some reason, it makes the "privacy" activists very happy to have
- business customers the only entities than can have caller number
- delivery. I have never been able to figure this out.
-
-
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