Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Sat, 6 Apr 91 13:22:08 GMT From: @comspec.uucp (David Berman) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Caller*ID Specifications Needed Message-ID: Organization: Comspec Communications Inc., Toronto Ontario Canada Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 269, Message 8 of 11 Lines: 28 Northern Telecom has had their Maestro phones out a while, I think. And I also believe that the Caller*ID transmissions from the phone company are kind of standardized. I think. Question: Does anyone reading know what is sent out? How the phone number or alpha information is encoded on the ring cycle? Has it been done in a reasonable way so that decoding is sensible? (etc) Addresses the future? Or: Does anyone know where such information is published for reference? Further: Will Toronto (416)'s Caller ID transmissions be compatible with the ones in the United States, say, in AT&T territory? Or will they be similar, but different, so that Maestro phones in Atlanta, GA, won't work in Toronto, even though they have fixed the design flaw down there? (I have even more questions, but hope that I will be able to follow the thread as others ask in response to your answers ...) [thanks] Dave Berman 436 Perth Av #U-907 daveb@comspec.UUCP Computer at work Toronto Ontario uunet!mnetor!becker!comspec!daveb Canada M6P 3Y7 416-785-3668 Fax at work