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[–] 73 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Real talk the lack of caller id for all businesses or government lines is insane.

If you are not making a private call, on a private line, the I'd should be populated

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The bigger issue here is spam calls.

    If that shit was stopped, people wouldn't ignore unknown callers.

    While your solution is good it only solves part of the problem.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    No, if a company was calling me and I didn't want to talk to them, I'd still be better informed with caller id.

    A spam call would be ignored because I wouldn't recognize the business name

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Many countries have this. It’s just just shitty American carriers that hold us back by gating anything and everything behind a fee.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Actually, in this case, it's partially the opposite.

    The Madison River Telephone Company (later CenturyLink and now Lumen) started blocked calls and services from Vonage (VOIP) in 2005 because VOIP was a threat. The FCC stepped in and ruled against Madison River in what was really the beginning of Net Neutrality legislation.

    Their ruling established that phone carriers couldn't discriminate against other services accessing their network and its features. Among those features is Caller ID. Since any. VOIP phone system doesn't actually originate from a telephone exchange, so they all essentially have to "spoof" their Caller ID.

    The phone companies can't block CallerID spoofing from spamme4s and scammers without violating a 20yo ruling from the FCC.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    which is extremely outdated, with proper called ID these spoofed numbers should be presented as such on the caller ID

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The problem is there is legitimate reason to spoof CID.

    VOIP is one. I also have the ability to do it when I make a call from my work cell to have it display the city switchboard so people both aren't calling me when I'm off duty, but also so that the people receiving calls see a call from the City, not from some random dude.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    The issue is with cell phones and mobile networks. They don't all support passing CNAM (caller name delivery) between them. I worked in telecom for over 15 years, dealt with only businesses, I never met a company that didn't have CNAM set up.

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