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- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!uknet!gdt!aber!jwp
- From: jwp@aber.ac.uk (J W Perkins)
- Newsgroups: uk.telecom
- Subject: Re: caller ID
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.134153.4824@aber.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 13:41:53 GMT
- References: <memo.878861@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Organization: University of Wales, Aberystwyth
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- In article <memo.878861@cix.compulink.co.uk> mandarin@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
- >woolleym@uhura.aston.ac.uk (M WOOLLEY) asks about Caller ID suppression:
- >
- >>> Will this be available in the uk ???
- >
- >Yes, and the code here will be 141. It is expected that there will be no
- >charge made here for suppression of the caller ID on a per-call basis but
- >it is unlikely to be made available on a permanent basis except in special
- >cases.
- >
- The main reasons FOR caller-ID that I can think of are nuisance and obscene
- calls, when the calling number can be furnished to the police, and cold-
- calling sales-people who you can ring back when THEY are likely to be
- watching their favourite television programme. Once a facility exist for the
- caller to suppress the information - and both these type of caller would
- surely make use of this - I fail to see the advantage of having caller-ID
- on the 'phone for bona-fide callers, whose number you are likley to have
- anyway. Can someone enlighten me?
-
- Jeremy Perkins
-