SAMcinty@exua.exeter.ac.uk (Scott A. McIntyre) (06/03/91)
I was just browsing through a flatmates copy of Cosmopolitan and in the back, in the advertising section under Personal was a device called something like the Inquisitor. Essentially, it's a Caller ID box that displays the area code and phone number of all incoming calls. It is also programmable to ignore calls from certain area codes or precise numbers. It also boasts a automatic dialer and a few other widgets. As far as I am aware, this is the first of these deviced to be on the UK market. I would think that it will not be trememdously successful since most of the UK is not on Tone yet (the device requires it). If anyone wants any more information, let me know, I'll copy down the advert and submit it. Scott
abm88@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Morley A.B.) (06/05/91)
In <telecom11.421.9@eecs.nwu.edu> SAMcinty@exua.exeter.ac.uk (Scott A. McIntyre) writes: > As far as I am aware, this is the first of these devices to be on the > UK market. I would think that it will not be trememdously successful > since most of the UK is not on Tone yet (the device requires it). I think that this came up on telecom some time ago. Apparently the box doesn't receive caller ID (neither Telecom nor Mercury transmit it), but automatically answers any incoming call with a digitized voice saying "Please enter the number you are calling from". Therefore there is nothing to make them tell the truth and if the caller hasn't got Tone then they cannot get through at all! A bit of a con really. Andrew Morley, - abm88@uk.ac.soton.ecs abm88@ecs.soton.ac.uk