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I'm not sure why Stefan wants to know this stuff.

If he wants to know who's been calling him, why doesn't he simply subscribe
to a CLI service (around $5/month from his Telco) and either log the calls,
both answered and unanswered, with either his PC or with a CLI display unit
(which can be purchased for around $20)?


"Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Why did you play silly buggers with the followups ?
>
> Stefan <stefan@ukmobileDELETETHISBIT.fsworld.co.uk> wrote
> in message news:Xns932665FE7F884547D@205.188.138.161...
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> > Do the telecom operators keep records of the
> > phone numbers of incoming calls to my phone?
>
> Yes, as part of the process of charging for calls made. But only for
> calls answered, its not that simple with calls that didnt get answered.
>
> > Of course this sort of info must be available somewhere just to
> > be able to bill the calling party.  For this I would guess the data
> > is stored in files structured around on the calling party number.
>
> Its more complicated than that but the short story
> is that the data is available the way you want it.
>
> > But is this data also kept in a form which allows the telco to
> > see which numbers have been ringing in to my own phone?
>
> Yes. But they wont give that info to you. They may
> well give the cops that info if say you get murdered etc.
>
> > Back in the old days it would have taken too much computing
> > power to resequence all this data or to do the database inquiry
> > so this question never arose.  But what about today?
>
> Certainly doable and has been done when the cops request it etc.
>
> Corse the detail varys with the country on access to the data.
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