>From: Andre Lategan >Subject: Re: FSK CALLER ID Receiver, Need help! > >I am just curious about Caller ID. > >Telecom New Zealand recently introduced Caller ID. They are selling the Caller >ID attachment AND charging a monthly rental for connection to Caller ID. I >wonder if this isn't just a spoof and they are actually sending the Caller info >down everyones' telephone line anyway, whether or not you actually pay for it? > >Has anyone any knowledge of this? Wow, Telecom New Zealand are a bunch of bloody cheapskates aren't they ? In Australia, Telstra was due to begin caller-ID 1st dec '97 but has delayed it a bit due to some end user concerns about the privacy aspect of it. It's a variant on the US system. AFAIK, it will be a free service like Easycall,etc. Silent numbers will not transmit their ID by default although normal ones will. Anyone will be able to disable/enable this on a call-by-call basis and it won't be passed on by exchanges when the originating mode is unknown. The caller ID decoders,etc are already on sale from around AU$39.95 upwards. It should be fairly easy to decode the data (transmitted between 1st & 2nd rings) with a good old fsk decoder chip & a Pic. Hope this sheds some light on the situation. Regards... _______________________________________________________________ Dave Duffy Audio Visual Devices AVD@mailbox.uq.edu.au Unit 8, 9-11 Trade Street, Cleveland, Queensland 4163 Australia Phone: +61 7 38210362 Facsimile: +61 7 38210281 _______________________________________________________________