I am moving into a new building, and was recently informed that all tenants must provide their phone numbers to have an active doorbell. I’ve never heard of this before? But then I’ve always lived in older buildings. Can someone explain how this works, and why management offices are doing this? What happens if your phone service is disconnected for non-payment and turned back on? Will management have to reprogram everything again?

Does this mean the bell doesn’t ring at all? Only the phone? Does this mean all visitors must have my phone number? I don’t give all my relatives my home number? lol

Also, when someone rings the bell, will caller ID let me know whether it’s the door or a call? Sometimes all this high tech stuff just takes away from privacy.

I just called an auto repair shop across the street from where I work to get a price on a tune up and an oil change. I sed another company at a different location and they TOTALLY screwed up my alarm system. No….they were not working on the alarm. Anyway, I thought..oil change and tuneup…how difficult could it be.

Well the man gave me a quote and then I asked if I got a discount as they always advertised to the agency I work for that they would do so. He told me that was the discounted price. I asked how that was so if he did not know where I worked. He said they have caller ID. I told them our agency is confidential and the caller ID should not work for them or any other phone. He said it came up for him thats how he knew.

I will NEVER use AAMCO for ANYTHING they suck!

How can I block my Call Information from showing up on Caller ID WITHOUT pressing *67?

Is there a service I can sign up for that can do this?

I need something reasonably priced and only phone and internet. The internet speed we have is really bad, 200 kbps, so I was really hoping for something really good, like 2 mbps, and the phone needs to have caller ID, Caller Waiting, and unlimited long and local distance. Anything out there that’s reasonably priced that has that?

I get constant voice recorder messages left on are answering machine. 20-30 a day. The bad part is that there all in hispantic. Dont want to Change my number. There has to be a way to block the number that is calling us. It shows on caller ID. Call it back and get a busy signal.

Some body used my phone (ONCE!) to call a cell phone. Now that cell phone calls my house at 1:54 AM…. I need my sleep.
I tried to do CALL BLOCK which is supposed to be a feature on my AT&T phone service. But that gets me a message that I can not block that number??? When I call them they say they need a NAME of who the caller is? IT IS A NUMBER! Why does that service not work? Is there any way for me to block that caller? I can not block all un-identified caller because my own cell phone could not get through if I had an emergency.
To me the same ability that allows the number to show up on caller ID is all that the phone company needs to BLOCK these calls. Help some one tell me what to do to block ONE caller from a cell phone… forgive my irratic typing, i have had no sleep.
I have got caller rejection, caller ID and all of the premium services. That is why I am so frustrated when they (my phone service provider) claims they can not block a cell phone because they need a NAME. The service should block the number, everything else in this computerized world is based on numbers. I can not access my own phone account unless I give a list of numbers (my social security and others like birth date ect..) but when it comes to a logical use for numbers they can not do this??? I think it is BOGUS. They are probably coming out soon with a new charge for blocking these!

"You can block any caller ID blocked calls to where they must unblock their calls to call you." Yea, how do you do that?

I know there is *67 to block if your calling someone but in order for a person not to call you and make it show up on the caller id as a blocked call. I need to prevent someone from calling my home.

Call block has been around for years on landlines. But it seems like if you’re not on a landline, and you’re unfortunate enough to need to block a number, you’re out of luck. The cell companies seem to act like it’s some huge deal to do it. Why? It’s just filtering out someone’s call based on their caller-ID; the landlines have been doing it for years. As landline service heads into retirement, will call block leave with it?

We own a small family business and have a client that we did work for 8 months ago that will not pay. We have attempted calling them for months but with caller ID they can see that we are calling so they just dont pick up the phone. Is it legal to go to the home to speak with them about there past due amount?

I returned a call to a business, credit card company, and I dialed the *67 before I dialed the 866 number and after a few minutes the guy knew what number I was calling from. What is the deal, I thought that *67 would block the caller ID? Maybe the credit card companies use a special phone system that lets them peak at the caller’s number anyway.

Does anyone have a better way to block the ID than *67 ?
Thanks
I have Charter Communications phone service and I did wait for the second dial tone before dialing the full number. Maybe the Charter phone system make the *67 a moot point ?
MORE DETAIL: I will calling from a "323" number using *67 and calling an 866 number.
MORE DETAIL: I WAS calling from a "323" number using *67 and calling an 866 number.
LESSON LEARNED: next time I will make that call from a pay phone, if I can find one. Thanks

A relative used an automated prank call service to get back at me for pranking her. It was a recorded message that sounded so real saying there were charges on my credit card account. It was a prank of course. She would have got me except I saw her number on my caller id. I thought it was pretty funny. Have you heard of such a thing?

Hi everyone,
This is my first question post! I really hope someone can help.
So here goes…
I’m trying to set up a small business. This business needs to be able to receive multiple different business lines to the one phone number?
I need to have caller ID also to address the different customers to each different business accordingly.
Is there such a programme? or do the phone companies take care of this? What’s it called?
Please help if you can point me in right direction.
Merry x mas everyone
Joel

It would be nice if it had caller ID, call waiting, cordless, 4 phones and a digital answering system.

I own a small business; my office and warehouse are in 2 separate locations, less than a block away or 400 feet apart. I need an Off Premises Extension or something like it so my phone will ring at both locations.

Qwest offers this service, but they "nickel and dime" me for every service. Would love to find a less expensive option.

I need to keep my current phone number, would like to have voice-mail and caller id.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!!

10 points to the best answer!

Please help!!!!!!
On the nickels and dimes details, our local phone company will charge -0 to set up an OPX, and then per month for that extension.

My phone set up is one phone line with a fax comm switch (basic phone service). One corded phone and one cordless phone.

There are 4 houses between my office and shop. It is not line of sight; I can see the building my warehouse is in, but not my unit.

I have no experience in this area as you can tell, but how would one go about: running or leasing a "dry" pair between the two buildings for just a few dollars per month.

I’ve tried a few cordless phones, including a Motorola Dect 6.0 and it fades out quickly.

I realize the phone company may still be the most cost effective way but I strive to keep my overhead low.

I have found some 0 cordless phones that claim 1,000 feet range but given the houses between the two settings I wonder if they would work.