Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!amdahl!apple!vsi1!wyse!mips!prls!gordon
From: gordon@prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Information about Answering Machine
Message-ID: <19858@prls.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 89 19:07:19 GMT
References: <1467@PSUECLB> <3623@mit-amt>
Reply-To: gordon@prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers)
Organization: Philips Research Labs, Sunnyvale, California
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>In article <1467@PSUECLB> was@psueclb.BITNET writes:
>>    I have interest to buy an answering machine which has the
>>capability to display the incoming telephone number before I pick
>>up the phone receiver.
>
In article <3623@mit-amt> pshen@atrp.media.mit.edu (Paul Shen) writes:
>	There isn't such a product and it also will never be on the
>market, if we keep on the current telephone system.
>

      Some phone companies will soon (if not already) be offering a
    device that will attatch to your phone and display the phone
    number of the originating party.
      I read of this several months ago and more recently read that
    Pacific Bell will be testing the new service in the San Fransisco
    area.
      Pacific Bell's plan sounds like the one I read about months ago;
       -There will be an additional charge for the feature plus
           the cost of buying the display unit.
       -There will be an addition charge/service for those who DON'T
           want THEIR number displayed on these devices.  :-)

      If you can be patient for a couple of more years, my opinion is
    that you may then be able to get an answering machine with this feature.

      I've notice Pacific Bell on USENET before, maybe one of their users
    monitors this newsgroup and would be willing to provide more specifics.
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