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From: dwl@hou5e.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.misc,net.legal
Subject: Re: querry: desirable phone features. legal/technical aspects.
Message-ID: <746@hou5e.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Aug-83 08:41:47 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 26 08:41:47 1983
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Organization: American Bell ED&D, Holmdel, NJ
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The original article, as well as this followup, should probably have
been posted to fa.telecom...

I agree that it would be useful to know who is calling before you
answer, but how much are you willing to pay for this information? I
don't think any information ought to be carried from one place to
another for free.  But if every incoming call, answered or not, cost
the recipient a message unit or something, you'd end up paying a lot
for junk-call traffic, among other things.

>From a feasibility standpoint, much of the present Bell System is
not capable of providing such information to the called subscriber. 
This will change, over a number of years, as more of the network is
converted to Common Channel Inter-office Signalling (CCIS).  For
now, the central office receiving an inter-office call does not know
the calling number.  Eventually, the information will become
available to the receiving office.  Making it available,
automatically or on-request, to the calling subscriber will then
become technically feasible.

-Dave Levenson
-ATTIS
-Holmdel, NJ