Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Information about Answering Machine
Message-ID: <1989Mar12.041312.21651@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1467@PSUECLB> <3623@mit-amt> <19858@prls.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 89 04:13:12 GMT

In article <19858@prls.UUCP> gordon@prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers) 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.
>>
>>	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.

Only if your local phone system supports this new service, and you're
paying for it.  If you take the device to an area which doesn't support
it, it won't work.  Very few areas will support it in the beginning.

Standard voice phone service, at the moment, never sends the calling
phone number to you, so it is inherently impossible for any device on
your line to show it to you.
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