Free Caller Display for BT Landline Customers.

Happychappy

Stompa wrote:

Yes, I know. But I can't think of any circumstances where I'd not want to answer.

Morning Stompa

If you send me your full name, date of birth, address with postcode, together with telephone number and dialling code. I will then make formal arrnagements for you to adopt my mother in law. :T

You will then get the same cold shiver down your spine, as the hairs on the back of your neck rise when you see her number on the caller display. Try it for 14 days on a no money or mother in law back guarantee, and see if you still answer the phone.:D

Really though she doesnt need a phone I can hear her from 100 miles away, and she is all around and knows everything.

Stompa

Happychappy wrote:

You will then get the same cold shiver down your spine, as the hairs on the back of your neck rise when you see her number on the caller display. Try it for 14 days on a no money or mother in law back guarantee, and see if you still answer the phone.:D

Really though she doesnt need a phone I can hear her from 100 miles away, and she is all around and knows everything.

Sounds like you should move, but not tell her your new address and phone number!!!

SwissToni_2

dognboneman wrote:

A BT customer only (line and calls with BT), has to make some chargeable calls, so one call would suffice.

That's much better, thanks.

V.Lucky

0845/0855 calls are cheaper with BT than with Talk Talk. I have caller ID with BT like this, and allways prefix these calls with 1280 and keep a note in the back of my diary to make sure I have made enough calls.

Also I have switched from monthly line rental billing to quarterly as it's easier to make 6 calls in a quarter than 2 a month, bigger time frame so I don't forget.

AMO

Stompa wrote:

I'm sure it must have its uses, but I've never quite figured out why I would want caller display. When I answer the phone, the first thing the caller normally does is tell me who they are!

Because:

1) If the number is an 0845/0870 number etc it might be cold calling by sales agencies. These days, there is a lot of cold calling by companies and they also use automated computer systems so that they dial through, you answer and then get a recorded message at the other end.

2) If someone wants to give you silent call treatment (an ex or something) you want to know his/her number so to avoid the phone. That person will then resort to anonymous calls which will be identified with Caller Display as well.

AMO

Happychappy

Stompa wrote:

Sounds like you should move, but not tell her your new address and phone number!!!

If you have seen Lord of the Rings and the Two Towers with the ever seeing eye of Zaron, my mother in law auditioned for the part but didnt get it as she was too frightening for the kids, would have had to have been an 18 to get in :rotfl: so I really dont think caller display will work, as she already knows ?

Stompa

AMO wrote:

1) If the number is an 0845/0870 number etc it might be cold calling by sales agencies. These days, there is a lot of cold calling by companies

True enough it might, but then again it might not - and I may miss a call that I wanted. Pretty much all cold calls I get (and I'd estimate that to be maybe 1 per month) withold their number anyway.

AMO wrote:

2) If someone wants to give you silent call treatment (an ex or something) you want to know his/her number so to avoid the phone.

That sounds pretty unlikely though - it's certainly never happened to me, and I don't ever recall anybody telling me it had happened to them.

hurrah

V.Lucky wrote:

0845/0855 calls are cheaper with BT than with Talk Talk. I have caller ID with BT like this, and allways prefix these calls with 1280 and keep a note in the back of my diary to make sure I have made enough calls.

Also I have switched from monthly line rental billing to quarterly as it's easier to make 6 calls in a quarter than 2 a month, bigger time frame so I don't forget.

I use https://www.18185.co.uk to make 0845/0870 calls if i cant find alternative here https://www.saynoto0870.com as they are cheaper then BT.

hurrah

Stompa wrote:

True enough it might, but then again it might not - and I may miss a call that I wanted. Pretty much all cold calls I get (and I'd estimate that to be maybe 1 per month) withold their number anyway.



That sounds pretty unlikely though - it's certainly never happened to me, and I don't ever recall anybody telling me it had happened to them.

Quite a lot of people find it a useful service you obviously dont.:D

Stompa

hurrah wrote:

Quite a lot of people find it a useful service you obviously dont.:D

I'm not suggesting that they don't find it useful, I'm just curious as to what they use it for.