Caller ID shows name

[Matthew Sadler]

When you place a call from the cellular to a landline phone, does it show
the name on the landline phone's caller ID?

--mws
http://kf4lhp.net/telweb/cellular-pcs/

"Donald P. McCanless" <mcca...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:pbDg7.1367$XY4.1...@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
> I just noticed that my cell phone, and my wife's cell phone, are now
> displaying names as part of caller ID. I had heard it was coming, but
> apparently it just started working here in DC.
>
> Unfortunately, both phones show MY name. Verizon says they can't/won't
> change the name for the other phone. They will only display the billing
> name. Too bad.
>
> Don
>
>

[Donald P. McCanless]

[Stanley Cline]

Matthew Sadler wrote:

> When you place a call from the cellular to a landline phone, does it
> show the name on the landline phone's caller ID?

That's what I'm guessing the original poster was referring to.

FWIW, Verizon said that caller ID name delivery to landlines would start
for Atlanta customers 8/1, but it hasn't started working yet. :( I'm
used to having this work with both Powertel/VS and Sprint PCS.

-SC

[Terry Knab]

Stanley Cline <s...@roamer1.org> wrote:

In Kansas City, it just shows number and -wireless call- still for both VZ
and Cingular numbers.

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[Stan]

I don't really know what it's doing in Charlotte. Originally, we were
supposed to get name delivery in 8/00, then we received another notice about
name delivery in 8/01. However, Alltel LEC uses an alternate CID name
database, so we still receive "CELL PHONE NC" for all calls from Verizon
Wireless.

FWIW, we receive "ALLTEL WIRELESS" for their calls, as well as "PCS PHONE
NC" for other carriers.

-Stan

"Terry Knab" <tk...@nyx.net> wrote in message
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[Lovejoy]

In article <3B8311C8...@roamer1.org>, Stanley Cline
<s...@roamer1.org> wrote:

> Matthew Sadler wrote:
>
> > When you place a call from the cellular to a landline phone, does it
> > show the name on the landline phone's caller ID?

When I did mine, it showed the number, but the name displayed as out of
area.

Lovejoy

[Matthew Sadler]

That's what we get here - OUT OF AREA and the number when calling to a
landline, and no name at all, just the number when calling to a cellular.

FWIW, the LG V111 will show the name if you have it programmed into memory,
which is nice... not aware if any others do this (but considering this is a
low-end phone, I'd hope so).

--mws
http://kf4lhp.net/telweb/cellular-pcs/

"Lovejoy" <Love...@earthlink.net.spam> wrote in message
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[nospam]

It is an interesting problem. Caller ID is now sending account name in our
area. My friend has a business with 7 phones for him and employees. Each
phone shows as "Fred Smith" on caller ID! Verizon says they won't change it
for each phone.

"Donald P. McCanless" <mcca...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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[Dale Wehrle]

No Name with Caller ID here in MA, area code 978.

"Matthew Sadler" <m...@kf4lhp.netxyz> wrote in message
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[Mike Cook]

Here in Ukiah, CA(area code 707) different carriers show different
things on PacBell's landline caller id. Calls from US Cellular show:
*US Cellular* for a name and then the phone number, and calls from
Verizon(formerly GTE, formerly Contel) show Uknown Name for the name
and then the number. A new PCS company, EDGE Wireless, who is part of
AT&T, is starting service here next month, it will be interesting to
see what shows up on the caller id from them.

"Dale Wehrle" <d_we...@bellatlantic.com> wrote in message news:<QHWg7.382$aY.1...@typhoon2.gnilink.net>...

[Stanley Cline]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 13:54:25 -0400, "Matthew Sadler"
<m...@kf4lhp.netxyz> wrote:

>That's what we get here - OUT OF AREA and the number when calling to a
>landline, and no name at all, just the number when calling to a cellular.

That's odd -- I'd expect you'd see at least city/state...(provided
your landline carrier is BellSouth and not an independent.)

>FWIW, the LG V111 will show the name if you have it programmed into memory,
>which is nice... not aware if any others do this (but considering this is a
>low-end phone, I'd hope so).

Every recent phone I've ever seen from any carrier, CDMA or otherwise,
does this. (My StarTAC 7868, which has four entries for numbers per
name, even shows the icon for the "type" of number [home, work, etc.]
on incoming calls.)

AFAIK there is no way to deliver name TO a cell phone, with CDMA or
any other protocol. Thus the phones "fudge" by looking up in memory.

-SC
--
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if anything sux in my email addy, replace it w/ roamer1.org

[Donald P. McCanless]

That's exactly what's happening.

Don

"Matthew Sadler" <m...@kf4lhp.netxyz> wrote in message

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[Craig]

Here in NJ, if you have Verizon it displays "New Jersey" along with
the # if you have a NJ number. Whichever state you have, it displays
that state. However, for all customers with Sprint, the name is
transmitted as well as the number.

[Stan]

In another development, when I called people in Verizon landline territory
in New York from my VZW phone in Charlotte, they'd get the number with
"NORTH CAROLINA". For some reason, that's now changed to "NORTHCAROLINA704"
on their display. I guess there's some software in the midst of being
upgraded.

A bit of a history lesson, also. When I opened my Charlotte account with
BANM in 1995, calls to a landline phone from my cell would show up with
"METRO MOBILE" in the name. I don't know how long after the BANM/Metro
Mobile buyout this was.

-Stan

"Stan" <296...@mail.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 05:10:46 GMT, "Stan" <sta...@noispam.yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >I don't really know what it's doing in Charlotte. Originally, we were
> >supposed to get name delivery in 8/00, then we received another notice
about
> >name delivery in 8/01. However, Alltel LEC uses an alternate CID name
> >database, so we still receive "CELL PHONE NC" for all calls from Verizon
> >Wireless.
> >
> >FWIW, we receive "ALLTEL WIRELESS" for their calls, as well as "PCS
PHONE
> >NC" for other carriers.
> >
>

> Strangely, in Greenville, SC (which is in the Charlotte market, IIRC), we
> *were* getting name and number delivery for BAM phones for a little while
> before the buy out. Now it just comes back with the city and number.
>
>

[*unsure*]

Here in Las Vegas it shows the callers name since the beginning of
August.

[R]

"*unsure*" <lvas...@lvcm.com> wrote in message
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I have a StarTac 7868W and on page 28 it states that it will show the
callers name if it has been programmed into the phone book, other wise it
will only show the number.

I can set it to always see the number if I wish by setting <phone
book><number prefer><on>.

[Donald P. McCanless]

Well, I guess Verizon's caller ID is not consistent. Yesterday, my land
line showed "Alexandria" (the city where the phone number is listed, not
where I live) instead of my name. Before this month, caller ID would show
as "Unavailable" or "Virginia."

Nothing like consistency!

Don

"Donald P. McCanless" <mcca...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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[Al Klein]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:22:11 GMT, "Donald P. McCanless"
<mcca...@earthlink.net> posted in alt.cellular.verizon:

>Well, I guess Verizon's caller ID is not consistent. Yesterday, my land
>line showed "Alexandria" (the city where the phone number is listed, not
>where I live) instead of my name. Before this month, caller ID would show
>as "Unavailable" or "Virginia."

>Nothing like consistency!

Stop complaining - Verizon is consistently inconsistent. :)
--
Al - rukbat at optonline dot net

[Corey]

I got a letter in the mail stating that it will begin Sept 30th.
(name and number caller ID)

On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 21:58:32 -0400, Stanley Cline <s...@roamer1.org>
wrote: