Caller Display

Alasdair

I got a call this morning from a sales organisation and on the Caller
ID, it showed an 0800 number. How was the caller able to arrange for
an 0800 number to be transmitted instead of the genuine geographical
number he was calling from?

--
Alasdair.

Peter Crosland

Alasdair wrote:
> I got a call this morning from a sales organisation and on the Caller
> ID, it showed an 0800 number. How was the caller able to arrange for
> an 0800 number to be transmitted instead of the genuine geographical
> number he was calling from?

Unless things have changed it is called Number presentation and is available
from BT and no doubt others. It is surely better than number witheld.


Peter Crosland

David Quinton

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:19:54 +0100, Alasdair <mail@bobaxter.coo.uk>
wrote:

>I got a call this morning from a sales organisation and on the Caller
>ID, it showed an 0800 number. How was the caller able to arrange for
>an 0800 number to be transmitted instead of the genuine geographical
>number he was calling from?

Google for "presentation number" UK
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Jono

Alasdair wrote:
> I got a call this morning from a sales organisation and on the Caller
> ID, it showed an 0800 number. How was the caller able to arrange for
> an 0800 number to be transmitted instead of the genuine geographical
> number he was calling from?
>

<http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/btbusinessProducts/displayProduct.do?productId=BTB-7141&s_cid=btb_FURL_business/presentationnumber>

J B

"Alasdair" <mail@bobaxter.coo.uk> wrote in message
news:rsoa2393cd8scuf7vv26a71115fdglarhu@4ax.com...
>I got a call this morning from a sales organisation and on the Caller
> ID, it showed an 0800 number. How was the caller able to arrange for
> an 0800 number to be transmitted instead of the genuine geographical
> number he was calling from?

Hmm .... my 'cold caller', presented an 08704 number.

Surprisingly, my daughter didn't tell him our 'contact details' and asked
him to call back later - which he didn't!


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J B

Owain

Alasdair wrote:
> I got a call this morning from a sales organisation and on the Caller
> ID, it showed an 0800 number. How was the caller able to arrange for
> an 0800 number to be transmitted instead of the genuine geographical
> number he was calling from?

He might not have been calling from a genuine geographical telephone :-)

Owain

NicHughes

On 18 Apr, 01:19, Alasdair <m...@bobaxter.coo.uk> wrote:
> I got a call this morning from a sales organisation and on the Caller
> ID, it showed an 0800 number. How was the caller able to arrange for
> an 0800 number to be transmitted instead of the genuine geographical
> number he was calling from?
>

BT offer this as a service, it is also available with many PBX systems
as well as many VoIP service providers. So long as the 0800 number is
registered to them this is perfectly legitimate.

As for genuine goegraphical number, do you actually know that the
phone in question has one?

--
Nic