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From: forrette@sim.berkeley.edu (Steve Forrette)
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Subject: ANI From a Cellular Phone
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Date: 18 Jul 90 06:15:58 GMT
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If you call an 800 number that delivers the ANI to the customer, what
shows up if you are calling from a cellular phone?  I know it's not
the actual mobile number, but is it at least some (seemingly) random
number on one of the prefixes that your cellular carrier has dedicated
for their use?


[Moderator's Note: I tried it a couple months ago from my cell phone
to my 800 number (on which I get ANI). It reported back some wierd
number, and when I called the Name and Address Service, it came back
listed to 'IBT Company', at an address on the southwest side of town
which also happens to be a central office building with a cellular
antenna on the roof. Dialing the number produced an intercept: "The
number your have dialed, xyz-abcd is not in service for incoming
calls."  PT]