Caller ID blocking?

Desperado99

OK so this may sound like a stupid question but,

Is it possible to stop your phone number from showing up on someone's caller ID when you ring them? We've just had a call (I know who from) and when I looked at the screen it just said 'Call' rather than the number so I left it, and they left a message.

When I went thru my call log afterwards to see where they'd phoned from it didn't show up ( I know as the first number that came up was from a previous PPI call that has been ringing over the last week), but when I rang 1471 it said the number of the person that had rung.

I know this may sound insignificant, but this person was the reason we got an ansaphone/caller ID in the first place and at one point we had the number blocking service. I don't understand why it's not showing on the phone, but 1471 have the info.

Any help would be gratefully received

iniltous

Yes you can stop your number being forwarded when you make any call, you can ask your service provider to do this , so all calls made don't show the number on the person called phone, or you can enter a code before the number called, on a per call basis, think you put 141 in front of the number and your phone number isn't passed on , but if the number called has anonymous caller rejection, the call won't be connected

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Desperado99 wrote: »

When I went thru my call log afterwards to see where they'd phoned from it didn't show up ( I know as the first number that came up was from a previous PPI call that has been ringing over the last week), but when I rang 1471 it said the number of the person that had rung.

This sounds like a fault at the exchange. If you can access the caller's details by ringing 1471 then the caller cannot have with-held their number.


Also, a bit unsure here, I think it's possible to dial 1571 to with-hold a number for an individual call. Happy to be corrected.

Roger1

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

Also, a bit unsure here, I think it's possible to dial 1571 to with-hold a number for an individual call. Happy to be corrected.

It's 141, as mentioned above.

1571 is BT's optional message service.

Desperado99

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

This sounds like a fault at the exchange. If you can access the caller's details by ringing 1471 then the caller cannot have with-held their number.

Thanks, That's pretty much the conclusion I came to. Just an unhappy coincidence that it happened to be the person who had been a nuisance caller in the past

this person can be quite devious (I would get abusive calls but they wouldn't hang up their end for ages, so I wouldn't be able to dial out) so it's a bit of a reassurance that they're not starting up with their old tricks again (I would still have them blocked if it were up to me)

Thanks everyone

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Desperado99 wrote: »

this person can be quite devious (I would get abusive calls but they wouldn't hang up their end for ages, so I wouldn't be able to dial out) so it's a bit of a reassurance that they're not starting up with their old tricks again (I would still have them blocked if it were up to me)

If that were me, I'd seriously consider changing my number. Might even be a money saving option if you go to another telco provider and get a better deal!

Buzby

Over the years I have tracked 2% of calls not correctly showing a number (where one was available).

This appears to be a by product of the FSK (frequency shift keying) technique where a spurious glitch creates an invalid number at the customer's end BUT is OK at the exchange and accessible via 1471 for a read back.

Desperado99

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

If that were me, I'd seriously consider changing my number. Might even be a money saving option if you go to another telco provider and get a better deal!

Oh......... if only I could. Unfortunately it's a family member (not my side) so we're stuck with it.

That's families for you