Being the slightly paranoid type, I never leave my dish network receiver plugged into the phone jack. This forces me to order pay-per-view movies over the phone. You dial an 800 number, and the computer asks what channel you want, and you have a movie; the computer, however, never asks for a phone number or any kind of account number. Okay, so Dish Network has caller ID. The next time I called, I punched in *67 (the caller ID block code in my area) before dialing. Confident I had stumped the computer, I finished my call. I was baffled when My movie appeared at the precise time as scheduled. Is my Dish Network receiver eminating mysterious signals that can be read over the phone lines? Please help, as I grow increasingly more paranoid of this evil black box every day.
Hmm. Is the 1-800 number universal, or is it possible that every subscriber has a seperate number (which would probably have to be an 888 or 877 number, since we’re about out of 800 numbers), which sounds awfully expensive.
Um, yeah. Re-reading that sentence, it makes no sense, but I’m sick as hell and don’t know how to fix it. Sorry.
Nice thought, but it is a universal number.
Since the recipient is the one paying for the call, he/she has a right to the phone number (at least on the monthly bill). I therefore assume call blocking does not work on 800 numbers.
800 numbers receive ANI information, which has more info than just regular caller-ID, whether you block caller-ID or not. ANI data has been going out since the beginning of time.
This is because Dish is paying for the call, so they need to know what number is calling them.