[plug] Telstra CLI/CID Question

[Matt Bruce]

Michael,

I think you'll find the spaces/characters are inserted by your CLI unit. My
$40 caller-ID jobie from Tandy asks for a 4-digit area code, and the manual
(ok, it's an A4 sheet in about 6 langauges) seems to require ours to be
entered as "0008", though it does have some weird symbol options. I really
must play with it sometime. :)

When a landline call comes in, it shows the call as:

  NUMBER ONLY
  0894445555

When a mobile call comes in, it shows the call as:

  MOBILE
  0412345678

Withheld-number calls replace the numbers with "----------"

I wonder if it's programmed to know "04" area codes are digital mobiles, or
if the CLI info sent down the line tells it? Haven't seen any international
calls come in on it yet, though.

Catcha,

-- 
Matt Bruce  <matt.bruce at alphawest.com.au>
Security Engineer - Security & Internet Services
AlphaWest - http://www.alphawest.com.au/
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Bob



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Hunt [mailto:Michael.J.Hunt at usa.net]
>Sent: Friday, 13 August 1999 12:06 pm
>
>I think that this is probably the more logical answer. My 
>little Caller id unit (one of the $20 jobies from target) 
>asks you for the area code (in 3 digits so the number 
>always displays as 089) when you put a new battery in it.
>Thus the number displayed is:  089 444 5555
>
>Could be that the hardware is causing the spaces and not 
>Telstra.