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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 12:54 PST
- From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: NT Caller ID Unit
- Reply-To: John Higdon <john@zygot.ati.com>
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 923, Message 9 of 9
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- On Dec 25 at 21:55, TELECOM Moderator writes:
-
- > What do PA and CA have in common? I'll let John H. respond to that.
-
- Not a whole lot. There are no laws in CA proscribing CNID; in fact
- even the current PUC regulations do not prohibit the offering of that
- feature. PA has a law; CA has an attitude.
-
- California is an example of special interests gone berzerk. Unless a
- person is a member of some definable special interest group or
- classification, he has no rights. In this case, we have the group
- inappropriately labeled "privacy advocates" who has had its way.
-
- The average telephone user such as myself (who is not a member of any
- special interest group) has no say. Except for letters of annoyance
- that went off to my assemblyperson and my state senator (both of whom
- I believe are against Caller-ID anyway), there is not much left to do
- but make whatever limited adjustments are possible within the crippled
- scope of operation allowed within this state. Or move; but I am not so
- inclined.
-
- I am actually considering a screening system using one of my business'
- 800 numbers. Let us see the "anony-freaks" get around that!
-
-
- 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: They'll call you from cellular phones. Here in
- Chicago, the cell phones do report a number for ANI, but it will
- always be some idiot number which is meaningless and one-way outbound
- calling only. For example, my cell phone reports (to my 800 ANI print
- out each month) a number which is NOT the cell phone number, which
- when dialed says the number dialed xxx-xxxx is not in service for
- incoming calls, and when checked with Name and Address Service (a
- public IBT offering at 312-796-9600) returns as its entry, "Eye Bee
- Tee Company" at an address on 87th Street in a western suburb; there
- is a CO at that address; and a concentrator to the cell carrier. It
- is always the same number on a consistent basis. Caller-ID on the
- other hand reports the cellular as 'Out of Area' and when I try call
- screening against the number at the IBT Co, the screening attempt
- fails for lack of supervision; unsupervised numbers can *never* be
- forwarded to, screened against or Caller-ID'ed here. In other words,
- telco can *always* get through when they want to call you! :) PAT]
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