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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 01:50 PST
- From: rmg50@ico.isc.com (Richard M Greenberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: No CNID in CA Says PacBell
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 916, Message 1 of 11
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- In Wednesday's (12/23) {LA Times} business section, PacBell announces
- that because the PUC did not ease the proposed restrictions on CNID
- service, they will not offer the service at all. Their main complaint
- seems to be that people with unlisted numbers (aproximately 40% of
- Californians) automatically be given the right, free of charge, to
- block CNID on all calls. (i.e. "per line blocking").
-
- PacBell joins GTE which declined to offer CNID six months ago.
-
- Starting in March '93, PacBell will offer three other Class features;
- Call Trace, Call Screen (with a limit of ten numbers), and Call
- Return.
-
-
- Rich Greenberg Work: rmg50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com 310-417-8999
- N6LRT Play: richg@hatch.socal.com 310-649-0238
- What? Me speak for Amdahl? Surely you jest....
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: My sympathy to the folks in California who believe
- they have the right to know who is calling them on the phone. But even
- without Caller ID, the screening service will be a valuable addition
- to them, as it will enable (for example) BBS operators to lock out
- crackers and phreaks who otherwise 'take a liking' to their system.
- The neat thing about Call Screening is that you don't have to know the
- number of the person calling, and often times who cares anyway. Just
- add call screening to the first line of each hunt group; then when you
- spot someone *on any line in the hunt group* you don't want to have
- around, dump the call and immediatly go on the first line in the hunt
- group and dial *60 #01# provided your syntax on this command is the
- same as ours. If his was 'the last call received' he'll be gone, gone,
- gone from your life. This works since the filter for screening sits in
- the CO path *before* the decision is made to hunt, but it does require
- that the call be to the lead number. If the caller dials direct into
- a back line then he will get around the screening; if that is an issue
- then add screening to those lines also. I believe (but won't swear to
- it) that an IBT tech said to me once that all your call screening
- filters could be chained or slaved to a master. Simple solution is to
- only give out the lead number; never give out the other numbers and
- always keep them sort of obscure and out of any logical sequence. PAT]
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