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- From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,alt.security
- Subject: Re: Caller ID products?
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 18:28:59 GMT
- Organization: The University of British Columbia
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- dave@revcan.rct.ca (David Blackwood) writes:
-
- >"In some areas of Bell Canada territory, a pay-per-use service called
- >"Call Trace" is available to single-line customers (residential and
- >business). Call Trace enables customers to activate a trace on
- >threatening or obscene calls by dialing a code immediately after hanging
- >up. Information concerning traced number(s) will be provided to the
- And Call Display will trace for you every single call that comes in to
- your phone. Why the phone company gets coy about Call Trace ( the
- number traced will only be released to the Police) when they provide a
- much more intrusive service I don't know ( except of course that they
- charge extra for Call Display, and not for Call Trace).
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