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- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!rsoft!mindlink!a3916
- From: Clayten_Hamacher@mindlink.bc.ca (Clayten Hamacher)
- Subject: Re: Caller ID block?
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 08:28:20 GMT
- Message-ID: <18868@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
- Lines: 31
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- >My wife (a former telecom industry employee) told me three interesting items
- >about CNID and CNID blocking.
- >
- >1) You have to subscribe to the CNID service to get blocking.
- >2) CNID blocking is for all calls. i.e. there is no way to temporarily turn
- > it off like *70 for call waiting.
- >3) Your number is CNID'd even if you don't have the CNID service
-
- It is different in all areas. The only one true everywhere is #3.. If CNID
- will show people from your area then it will show you, if yourself subscribe
- or not. Remember, every prefix is different, just because 202-451 for
- example may show up on CNID doesn't mean 202-679 will.
-
- #1 is wrong in most areas. In fact, in Canada that would be illegal (BC at
- least)... The phone company has been forced to provide *67 blocking for free
- and to anyone who requests it.
-
- #2 changes all the time. Here it's off unless I turn it on for a call, that
- could be because it's against their wishes and they want to make it hard to
- use to keep people from getting it... The only way to tell is to ask your
- phone company.
-
-
- P.S. If they give you a number shortly after it was a bussiness # and you get
- calls constantly then they will give you a new one.. I'm not sure if it's
- policy or law but the phone company here will change #s for free in such
- cases.
-
- --
-
- Clayten_Hamacher@Mindlink.bc.ca Land of the rising snow.
-