Re: Caller ID Showing Which Calling Card Used???

Chris Farrar wrote
>> Clearly Bell is now putting the "billing number" for the calling >> card through as Caller ID. >> Are any other phone companies doing this? > I doubt it is a "billing number" and probably isn't directly related > to the originator of the call at all. I've used prepaid cards from > AT&T for about 5 years now. The CID that shows for calls I make comes > from various places around the country: Denver, Dallas, San Francisco, > etc. I assume that the 800 number I call to start the process > actually routes to whatever AT&T center is the least busy at the > moment and the CID number comes from there.

The original poster's writing was a bit vague, but I got the impression he was talking about a calling card that was actually part of his main landline phone service.

I know that some of the Bells, some of the time ... did, indeed, send over the CNID of the home telephone/account number in the Bad Old Days. But it's been a decade, or longer, since I've used or had any friends using them, so have no idea how long this lasted.

(We looked into this option about five years ago for corporate use - we wanted people to be able to call out from home or offsite or at lunch.. and have the CNID show their work number. Think, oh, a teacher or doctor calling from home. We weren't able to find anyone set up for this.)

There are some folk _today_ who'll reset the CNID for you to whatever you wish when you make the call. Check out, for example,

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(no connection with them aside from having tested their service).

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