Withheld number

[aceizace]

Just a quick debate really, do you think you should be able to withhold your number on outgoing calls? I can understand not being listed in phonebooks etc, but why outgoing ones? I'm just fed up of prank calls and companies that withhold their number!

[pipofski]

of course you should. if you couldn't then the people you call with pervy heavy breathing calls would know who it was almost straight away what with technology being as it is these days.

prank calls rule, especially on the weekend, early mornings. random number dialling, using 141 first remember, is soooo much fun.

[xyzzy@bok]

Nothing much is withheld these days, soon nothing at all, may as well get used to it, so my defeatist answer is no. 141 only withholds your number from a callee, BT etc still got you.

[Hippy]

If you have caller display switched on at your end then you can get little switches with a battery in that detect the witheld flag in the data burst and then block the ring pulses. The phone doesn't ring, but the caller still gets the ringing tone at their end. Frustrating for them, peacful for you. I got mine about six years ago from a gizmo shop near here, it was made in USA.