Telephone caller ID
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2019 1:43 am
A couple of days ago when at lunch with a friend, we got into a the conversation about the jillions of Robocalls we both receive. We know about number spoofing, and both of us don't answer our cell phones anymore unless the number is in our phone's address book. Both of us are in the gummint's "do not call" list.
I got to thinking about when I had a POTS landline (until a few years ago), and my dumb phone displayed originating number as well as a name. My cheap cell only shows the (alleged) incoming number; my friend apparently pays some extra $$$ to see the alleged city/state on his Iphone.
When I call my Mom on her landline into her dumb POTS phones (but they have a caller ID readout), it shows my cell number and name. Mom's calls to me only appear with her name on my cell because she is in my address book.
So..."inquiring minds wanted to know".
Wiki has a cool bit of techno-weenie info which I thought I'd pass along:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID
Bri
I got to thinking about when I had a POTS landline (until a few years ago), and my dumb phone displayed originating number as well as a name. My cheap cell only shows the (alleged) incoming number; my friend apparently pays some extra $$$ to see the alleged city/state on his Iphone.
When I call my Mom on her landline into her dumb POTS phones (but they have a caller ID readout), it shows my cell number and name. Mom's calls to me only appear with her name on my cell because she is in my address book.
So..."inquiring minds wanted to know".
Wiki has a cool bit of techno-weenie info which I thought I'd pass along:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID
Bri