Re:Caller ID Made Simple
by guan on Monday April 09, 2012 @03:17PM
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I believe this is also the case for public switched telephone network in the US. On a landline, the name and number of the calling party is transferred by Bell 202 and a lot of phones will display this information.
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Re:Caller ID Made Simple
by gruntle888 on Monday April 09, 2012 @11:24PM
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This discussion is about how the name is delivered to the telephone company being called, not from that company to your phone. In the US, the calling telephone company sends the number, the called company looks it up in a database, then sends the name they get to your phone. Everything but the delivery to the phone takes place over the SS7 network.