FCC Approves Home-To-Cell Number Rule

We always have Sears calling us about some stupid store credit card BS offer
that nobody in our house cares about. At one time I had the calls forwarding
from our home phone to our cell phone and discovered that if a telemarketer
comes up on the caller ID as "out of area", then forwarding such calls to
the cell phone will display our home phone number on the cell's caller ID as
it was forwarded through that line.

You should have heard the poor Sears lady when I chewed her out for falsely
using my own family's number on our caller ID to trick me into answering the
call (before I realized what happened with the call forwarding). LOL.

One time I had Pitney Bose call me to convince me to lease their stupid
postage meter. I wasn't paying for the airtime minutes at the time, so I
kept the idiot on the line for two and a half hours pretending to be
interested and asking every stupid question that came to mind. "Oh, you say
I don't have to go to the post office anymore?! Wow. Does that mean it'll
print out copies of the mail that normally is delivered to my PO box?", or
"Can I ship FedEx or UPS with this thing?", or "Will it integrate with my
custom-written customer management database and accounting software?"

I used to get calls from them at least once a week. After that one time, I
haven't heard back from them sense. They do still send me letters though.

-Jeff



"Larry W4CSC" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 23:32:02 GMT, "Dave C."
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> >"DW" <sysop> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> >> washingtonpost.com
> >> FCC Approves Home-To-Cell Number Rule
> >>
> >> By JONATHAN D. SALANT
> >> The Associated Press
> >> Monday, November 10, 2003; 4:55 PM
> >>
> >>
> >> Federal regulators gave the go-ahead Monday for consumers to switch
> >> their home phone numbers to their cell phones.
> >
> >Great, now we get illegal telemarketing calls to both our home phones AND
> >our cell phones. -Dave
> >
> >
> What's fun to play with is get a callback number. Serious spammer
> will give you a number. Then, of course after 9:01PM on unlimited
> service, call em back and see how long you can keep them on the phone
> with your silly questions, like where are you located, is it a nice
> place to live, I hear a lot of people - are you in a boiler room I
> read about, their local weather report compared to yours is a great
> way to waste their time.....
>
> The last one who called was very nice. She and I had a great time
> until she set off some alarm for overtime on her terminal and got back
> to business. At that time, I started asking silly questions about the
> product and managed another 8 minutes before she hung up on me, the
> nicest, most pleasant caller she'd had all day. Be drippingly nice
> when you call....(c;
>
>
>
> Larry W4CSC
>
> "Very funny, Scotty! Now, BEAM ME MY CLOTHES! KIRK OUT!"
>

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On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 11:43:49 -0500, "Jeff"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>We always have Sears calling us about some stupid store credit card BS offer
>that nobody in our house cares about. At one time I had the calls forwarding
>from our home phone to our cell phone and discovered that if a telemarketer
>comes up on the caller ID as "out of area", then forwarding such calls to
>the cell phone will display our home phone number on the cell's caller ID as
>it was forwarded through that line.

Apparently different phone companies implement call forwarding and/or
caller ID in different ways,. I know that Verizon's service does not
work in this fashion. My wife has our home phone number listed on her
business cards - we have that line set up to forward to our office
automatically if not answered within four rings. At the office, we
have called ID - and no forwarded call has ever caused our home number
to be displayed. If we get calls with caller ID blocked they show up
as blocked when received at the office, as well.

"Bob Ward" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Apparently different phone companies implement call forwarding and/or
> caller ID in different ways,. I know that Verizon's service does not
> work in this fashion. My wife has our home phone number listed on her
> business cards - we have that line set up to forward to our office
> automatically if not answered within four rings. At the office, we
> have called ID - and no forwarded call has ever caused our home number
> to be displayed. If we get calls with caller ID blocked they show up
> as blocked when received at the office, as well.

This might also be something that depends on the configuration of the
cellular carrier's switch. I understand that both the call's origination ID
as well as the pass-through number are both passed with the forwarded call.
It could be that if they see a blank caller ID call come in with a valid
pass through ID, they could display the pass through ID instead of the
origination ID, or they could simply discard it and leave the ID blank.

I understand that this ANI identification of the number calls were forwarded
through is commonly used by services like CallWave and BuzMe. You can
forward your home phone line's calls to their 800 number and they will then
identify you based on the pass-through ID so that they can pop up a message
on your screen saying that someone is calling while you're online. It's kind
of nifty how it works, without requiring callers to enter any pin numbers or
you to have a unique phone number on their end to forward your calls to.

-Jeff

Larry, where don't you post? ;P Hope you're doing ok. Looks like I'm about
to go to Cingular
Ben KE4RZI
"Larry W4CSC" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 05:56:03 GMT, David S <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> >But how can your customers call you if you're on the phone chatting up
> >underpaid young drones?
> >
> Even bagphones have call waiting....(c;
>
>
> Larry W4CSC
>
> "Very funny, Scotty! Now, BEAM ME MY CLOTHES! KIRK OUT!"
>