[sci.electronics] Caller ID and Cellular Phones

ssy@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird) (02/07/90)

Will caller-ID systems be accepting information from the cellular sites in order
to identify the cell phone user's number?

This would seem complicated at best.  Also, since cell phone companies are more
competitive for users, it seems they'd be less likely to force such a 'service'
on their clients.

If this is true, it seems yet another great reason to use cell phones.

--kyler

heath@shumv1.uucp (Heath Roberts) (02/09/90)

Actually, the DMS switches treat cellular calls just like any other. The
cellular link is just another node on the PM bus. There shouldn't be any
difference in the software to ID cellular calls than to ID line calls.
I'm speaking of Northern Telecom switches, but I think AT&T and other
manufacturers use a similar arrangement.



Heath Roberts
NCSU Computer and Technologies Theme Program
heath@shumv1.ncsu.edu