Caller-ID modem (was Re: repost from comp.dcom.telecom

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From: Brendan B. Boerner
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:25

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In article <1NKMGN@taronga.com> peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Or, if you have a PC, get a modem with Caller-ID capability, then write
>a trivial program that watches the phone line. If it sees a number it
>recognises it rings you, otherwise it stores the number in a file and
>lets the answering machine take the call.

I'm infering from this that the information for a Caller-ID machine is
already present on the line when a call comes in and that what SWB is
proposing is NOT any new technology, just a new box to plug in to
retrieve this info.  Is this correct?  What's then to prevent some guy
from building a Caller-ID box (Caller-ID modem without the modem) and
selling it?  And if that's true, what do we need SWB providing this
service for?

Thanks,
Brendan
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From: bboerner@novell.com (Brendan B. Boerner)
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Subject: Caller-ID modem (was Re: repost from comp.dcom.telecom
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Date: 30 Dec 92 15:25:03 GMT
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