Caller ID info (or lack thereof)

Factual Questions
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Using *67 will block a call for free. This is on a per call basis. Or it used to be.

Every area in the USA uses a different phone company so rules are different.

In El Paso you used to have to press a *code to UNBLOCK your call or it was set up so everyone’s call was blocked.

When I lived in MD it was at the time at least, if anyone had caller ID they also had an option to block the blocker.

One annoying thing is, at least in Chgo, is with the new number of local phone companies competeting caller ID is less valuable.

For instance AT&T local service calls to my house (that is the caller that calls me is using AT&T as a local carrier) the calls all show up as Illinois (or whatever state) Number and the phone number. The people’s names do not appear.
Telco local service calls all appear on my caller ID as “Out of Area” even if they are calling from down the street.

I do not answer calls out of area or private. People know this. I pay $9+ dollars a month for caller ID and there is no real reason a friend should block his number.

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      • So, now we have, , ,
  • Caller ID to identify numbers the calls are originating from, unless they have-
  • ID blocker, so that their number doesn’t show up on other people’s caller-ID screens, , ,
  • and now the local phone co. is hawking something new, where, somehow, telemarketers can’t get through. Someone told me that this new feature only lets known phone numbers ring through somehow. But I wonder about this, because , , ,
  • the phone companies sell phone data to marketers; always have. Would you pay to get a phone number that you can’t reach? Hmmm…
  • Wasn’t there a Dr. Seuss book kinda like this? - MC
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My husband is on call 24 hours a day. This includes dinnertime and after 10 PM. My father-in-law is quite ill, and might need assistance. Again, this might happen during dinnertime, or after 10 PM. We get an astonishing number of wrong numbers, and kids playing pranks.

Caller ID is convenient FOR ME. If you don’t want me to have your phone number, why are you calling me?

Lynn

Queen of the Pit