Re: Caution: Unidentified Callers Ahead

The FCC never took jurisdiction over name identification.

Should they?

M> Caution: Unidentified callers ahead

Phone companies fail to provide some IDs because of the cost of > obtaining the data > By Bruce Mohl, Globe Staff > Are you getting your money's worth from caller ID? > Some callers can't be identified because their information is blocked > or unavailable, but in other cases the callers aren't named because > the customer's phone company simply doesn't want to spend the money to > obtain the data. > A small Globe test of caller ID accuracy found several instances where > Verizon Communications and Comcast Corp. didn't provide a caller's > name because they didn't want to pay the extra money. > The price is minimal on a per-call basis -- often a penny or less a > call -- but spread across a telecommunications giant's many customers, > it can quickly run into the tens of millions of dollars. >

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