Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Sun, 28 Apr 91 17:56:42 -0700 From: Steve Forrette Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Caller ID and Name Being Tested by US West Message-ID: Organization: University of California, Berkeley 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 315, Message 7 of 7 Lines: 20 In article David writes: > Actually that is coming. I was at a friend's house who works for US > West. I was reading their internal weekly newsletter, and it said > that US West was testing a Called ID scheme in Nebraska (I think) that > would deliver both the calling number and subscriber name. The > article went on to say that this was unique where all other systems > only delivered the calling number. My Pacifc Bell friend knew something of this. When pressed for details, he indicated that it just used the name in the computer (the listed directory name, I believe), and had no provisions for several people at the same calling number. There may have been a way to specify an "override" string, whose sole purpose was for Calling Name delivery, but I'm not certain. Steve Forrette, forrette@cory.berkeley.edu