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- From: pstevens@cage.gssec.bt.co.uk (Perdita Stevens)
- Newsgroups: uk.telecom
- Subject: Re: caller ID
- Message-ID: <PSTEVENS.93Jan21110824@cage.gssec.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 11:08:24 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.085721.9253@edscom.demon.co.uk> <1993Jan20.125228.2440@aston.ac.uk>
- Sender: usenet@gssec.bt.co.uk
- Organization: BT Glasgow Systems and Software Engineering Centre, Scotland.
- Lines: 11
- In-Reply-To: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk's message of 20 Jan 93 12:52:28 GMT
-
- > If BT uses the standard approach caller ID is transmitted after the first
- > ring (which also wakes up the modem)
-
- I believe that the caller id is actually transmitted before the first
- ring, so in theory it should be possible to stop the phone ringing at
- all. But I don't work for that part of BT, so I may be wrong! Anybody
- know for sure?
-
- Perdita Stevens
- BT Glasgow Engineering Centre
- *My opinions, not BT's *
-