Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 22--AMERITECH CORP. will introduce a service today that helps customers handle unwanted calls from telemarketers. It will use the phone company's caller identification service to stop calls that are not fully identified from ringing customers' phones. Most telemarketers...
NEW YORK -- Four Baby Bells boosted fourth quarter earnings as consumers installed more phone lines to peruse the Internet and signed up for caller-identification and other specialty services that carry high profit margins.
Feb 1, 2002 (E-Commerce Today ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian Internet service providers ISPs are seeking to find ways of reducing spam. The Internet Industry Association's cybercrime taskforce has suggested using a technology known as Caller Number Identification CLI, similar to the caller ...
Remember all the fuss a few years back over Caller ID and ANI delivery, and whether they violated a caller's rights and expectations of privacy? Well, the privacy issue is back, in forms both familiar and new. Nationwide...
WASHINGTON -- Starting today, if you have Caller ID you'll know when a telemarketer is trying to reach you. That's when Federal Trade Commission regulations kick in requiring telemarketing firms to identify themselves. Such calls had shown up on Caller ID as "out of area." Now...
SEOUL, Sept 16 Asia Pulse - LG Telecom, the smallest of South Korea's three wireless carriers, has been under growing pressure after its competitors decided to cut caller identification ID service fees by half. SEOUL, Sept 16 Asia Pulse - LG Telecom, the smallest...
SAN FRANCISCO--BUSINESS WIRE--June 13, 1996--The California Public Utilities Commission CPUC today granted Pacific Bell permission to offer Caller ID service to its California customers effective June 15. Approval was given upon Pacific Bell's completion of a $33 million Caller ID consumer education campaign.
SAN FRANCISCO--BUSINESS WIRE--June 14, 1996--The California Public Utilities Commission CPUC today granted Pacific Bell permission to offer Caller ID service to its California customers effective June 15. Approval was given upon Pacific Bell's completion of a $33 million Caller ID consumer education campaign.
APOPKA, Fla.--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 22, 1996--From now until Feb. 29, customers of Sprint/United Telephone-Florida and Sprint/Centel-Florida who sign up to receive Caller ID and Caller ID With Name for the first time, will receive an added bonus -- a $24 credit!
Leap Wireless International Inc. expanded it Cricket service offering with its Cricket Unlimited plan that includes anytime local calling, U.S. long-distance service except to Alaska, text messaging, voice mail, caller identification, call waitin Leap Wireless International Inc. expanded it Cricket service offering with...
SAN FRANCISCO--BUSINESS WIRE--August 4, 1998--Pacific Bell announced today that one million of its customers now subscribe to Caller ID, enabling them to exercise greater privacy and control over which calls they answer.
PORTLAND, Ore.--BUSINESS WIRE--May 19, 1998--AirTouch Cellular customers in Oregon no longer have to wonder who is calling when their cellular phones ring. With AirTouch Cellular's Caller ID service, customers using analog Advanced Mobile Phone Service AMPS phones with Caller ID capability will now see the incoming...
SAN FRANCISCO--BUSINESS WIRE--May 9, 1996--Retail stores in California will soon be selling Caller ID telephones and display devices branded with the Pacific Bell logo. The company today announced an agreement with CIDCO Incorporated, headquartered in Morgan Hill, California, to supply Caller ID display units, as well as a line...
CASPER, Wyoming--BUSINESS WIRE--June 23, 1998--AirTouch Cellular customers in Wyoming no longer have to wonder who is calling when their cellular phones ring. With AirTouch Cellular's Caller ID service, customers using analog Narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone Service NAMPS phones with Caller ID capability will now see the incoming...
IRVINE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 22, 1996--Toshiba America Information Systems Inc., Telecommunication Systems Division TAIS TSD on Friday introduced the Strata DK16e, the first small digital business telephone system to offer Multiple Directory Numbers MDNs, Direct Inward Dial DID, Tile Lines, Caller ID, Automatic Number Identification ANI and Dialed Number Identification Service...
OMAHA, Neb.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 12, 1998--AirTouch Cellular customers in Omaha no longer have to wonder who is calling when their cellular phones ring. With AirTouch Cellular's Caller ID service, customers using analog phones with Caller ID capability will now see the incoming phone number displayed on their cellular phone before...
By Kevin DeMarrais, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 31--CERTAIN CALLS VOID PRIVACY FEATURES: Privacy is precious to us, which is why many consumers pay an extra fee each month for caller ID, call blocking, or call intercept. ...
Washington - A new Federal Communications Commission FCC rule governing the implementation and use of interstate Caller ID should have little effect on catalogers, observers say. Now rolling out nationwide, Caller ID is an advanced form of automa Washington - A new Federal Communications...
