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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 18:59:06 CDT
- From: wdp@gagme.chi.il.us (Bill Pfeiffer)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: What Number Am I Calling From?
- Message-ID: <telecom12.624.1@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 624, Message 1 of 12
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-
- In a recent TELECOM digest, ricochet@spatula.rent.com (Rick O'Shea)
- writes:
-
- > Is there a way to get the number of the phone you're calling from?
- > For example, the payphone in my laundromat isn't marked and the store
- > owner says he doesn't know what it is. There's times when it would be
- > more convenient to have somebody call me back, but if I don't know the
- > number, how can they?
-
- We used to have to call collect to a pre-arranged person who would
- refuse charges and request the number so the fictitious party could
- allegedly call back.
-
- Now-adays, why not just call someone with caller ID and get the number
- that way?
-
- Keep in mind that not all pay phones are set up to receive incoming
- calls. I would test it before waiting for that 'important' call-back.
- As far as I know, there is no other way to get a number of the pay
- phone.
-
-
- William Pfeiffer
- Moderator - rec.radio.broadcasting - Internet Radio Journal
-
- > Rick
-
- P.S. Rick O'Shea, great radio name :->
-
-