On 22 Dec 1998 21:02:00 -0000, [log in to unmask] ("Adrian Midgley")
wrote:
>Is anyone familiar with ACR yet?
>Anonymous Call Rejection.
>
>Where phone calls which withhold the caller's number do not ring, and are
>met with a recorded message at the exchange.
>
>I shall write more on this, but is there already a level of awareness here?
As far as I am aware, BT do not yet offer this service, but some cable
companies do. I am just speaking from memory here, so don't treat this as
authoritive, but apparently the reason is that there is some European
directive over Anonymous Call Rejection; it has to be introduced together
with presentation numbers. These allow people (like Doctors) who have a
genuine reason for not revealing their caller-id (rining from home, or a
mobile, say) to present another valid number (eg: the surgery) wherever they
call from.
This seems to be too complicated for BT to understand so they've been
avoiding the issue so far.
Best wishes
James
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