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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 07:04 PST
- From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: No Caller-ID in California
- Reply-To: John Higdon <john@zygot.ati.com>
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 916, Message 2 of 11
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- As a result of the ridiculous requirements imposed upon the service by
- the California Public Utilities Commission, Pacific Bell has announced
- that it has no plans to offer Caller-ID at the present time. These
- restrictions make it impossible to offer a viable product to
- customers, according to Pac*Bell.
-
- The two major stumbling blocks are the requirement for per-line
- blocking (and the correlary requirement that ALL unlisted numbers be
- blocked by default), and the stringent customer notification and
- education that Pac*Bell would have to provide in advance of the
- offering. Pacific Bell indicated that since forty percent of
- residences in California have unlisted numbers, any Caller-ID offering
- would be of little value to potential users.
-
- So my heartfelt thanks go to each and every one of the staff and
- commissioners who have deemed it necessary that Californians will
- continue to be deprived of services that are commonplace in the rest
- of the country. And we wonder why all the high-tech companies are
- moving out!
-
- By the way, no other state in the union has the requirements that the
- CPUC has imposed upon the CNID offering. It is good to know that
- anonymous and crank callers have people in high places looking out for
- them. No where else but in California would this be the case. Too bad
- the real, productive people in this state have no advocates.
-
- For what it is worth, Pacific Bell will begin offering Call Block,
- Call Return, and Call Trace beginning in March. As long as the person
- who is being harassed cannot find out who is doing the harassing, the
- CPUC has said that Pac*Bell can offer these services. Whoopie.
-
-
- John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 264 4115 | FAX:
- john@ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | 10288 0 700 FOR-A-MOO | +1 408 264 4407
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: If PacBell wants to make an end-run around the PUC,
- all they need to do is implement Blocked Number Call Blocking, and
- educate their caller ID subscribers on how to automatically reject
- calls from unidentified parties. When that forty percent with non-pub
- numbers found out that fifty percent of the other subsribers were
- refusing their calls, they'd soon ask for their number to start being
- displayed by default also. PAT]
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