[plug] Telstra CLI/CID Question

[Garth Atkinson]

Mike Holland wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, John Summerfield wrote:
> 
> > > > I believe cli is sent using dtmf tones and there is no tone for a
> 
> No, it includes text.
> 
> > > using 300 Baud FSK.
> 
> That rings a bell.
> 
> > it also means an answered call & so is charged.
> 
> No, no 'answer' is needed. The modem gets the data without going
> "offhook", so officially no "call completion". You can test this using a
> mobile phone.
> 
> Mike Holland <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>            Perth, Australia.
>                           --==--
>         Many are cold, but few are frozen.
Spot on Mike.

Mgetty (after some modification to the source code) will not answer the
call (take modem off hook) if the caller's number is not 'allowed' (see
/etc/mgetty+sendfax/dialin.config). For what its worth without this
thread getting too muddy, I think telstra does things differently from
other telcos around the world.  Given a caller ID of 0894445555 I think
telstra insert white spaces betweem caller area code (eg 08) and number1
(eg 9444) and number2 (eg 5555). As I said earlier it appears that other
telcos dont do this. Other telcos seem to concatenate the number so
there are no 'white spaces' seperating any part of the number (which is
a good idea I think).

If I am right then telstra is VERY wrong for doing this. Just what
software developers want, yet another exception to be handled.

Garth