🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <3328030C.118@pacbell.net>,
Wally Roberts  <terps@pacbell.net> wrote:
>Hansel E. Lee Jr. wrote:
>
>> If the only way you can get your caller-id to work is by forcing everyone
>> to unblock calls.. maybe that should tell you something..  I'd say that
>> Companies (to include public utilities) have MORE of a right to block their
>> number from being released than you have in demanding to receive it..
>
>What it tells me is that the California authorities conducted a scare 
>campaign rather than an education campaign last year before they became
>the last state in the nation to offer caller id.  The state regulators
>were
>like a bunch of upset kids because they fought the FCC in court and lost
>every step of the way.
>
>No other state fought this technology like that.  26 states don't even
>permit per-line blocking, only per-call blocking.  The per-line blocking
>rate in California is around 75%.  In the other 23 states that permit
>it,
>it's in the low single digits.  That also tells me something.

So move.  We have plenty of people in California.  We won't miss you!