I live in Greece. I received a call from my cousin in NY. On my caller
> Id his number appeared as 0044212xxxxxxx (where the x's show his
> actual 212 area code POTS number.
> How is this possible?
I have occasionally received international calls with caller ID on a cell phone, and once or twice I've seen a country code as a caller ID on a landline phone.
So clearly it is possible. It seems thought that most US landline caller ID boxes assume that all numbers are in xxx-xxx-xxxx format.
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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Has anyone received a phone call from someone calling via Vonage recently? My caller ID (on those calls) shows the number, but identifies the caller as 'Vonage User'. PAT]