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- From: tp@jet.uk (Tarang K Patel)
- Newsgroups: uk.telecom
- Subject: Re: Caller ID
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.094646.21169@jet.uk>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 09:46:46 GMT
- References: <6531@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk>
- Distribution: uk
- Organization: Joint European Torus
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- In <6531@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk> zzatsjl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Janusz Lukasiak) writes:
-
-
- >I don't understand all these arguments about nuissance calls and quintuple
- >glazing salesmen. Firstly, the first time round you wouldn't know who it is
- >anyway. Secondly, if a persistent heavy breather or salesman doesn't take
- >'get lost' (or equivalent) for an answer, he'll ring again. What do you do
- >then - leave the phone ringing and ringing, and ringing again in 30 minutes?
- >I'm not sure what sort of additional protection the knowledge of caller ID
- >offers in such a situation.
-
- With call ID, as a result of digital networks, there is a device on the
- market which allows call barring. Mind you this wont be available in U.K for
- some 5 years, as Telecom companies like B.T and Mercury are in the business
- of fleecing its customers for as much time and money they can before offering
- a service beyond that offered by the 70's technology - yet having spent
- millions in ad's promoting that 80's and 90's tech has been installed by them.
-
- Anyway before I get side tracked, the call barring system works quite simply:
- You have a number of well known 'quintuple glazing' telesales phone numbers,
- which you simply register from your phone hand set as numbers to be barred.
- Thus when any one of these numbers dial in to you all they receive is an
- engaged tone. While as far as your phone is concerned it is free to receive
- legitimate callers. I mean the idea is you wouldn't let a total stranger
- into your house, just because he asked himself in - so why allow a caller in !
-
-
- Have you ever wondered with all the hype about system X and/ or Y what has
- really changed for the private Telephone user since say the 70's ---
-
- "Not an iota .... "
-
- Stuff the B in T and let NTT, AT&T ad Pacific bell etc... come in and show
- B.T and Mercury how its done. :-)
-
- Tarang
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