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Default 09-06-2011, 22:30

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Originally Posted by inquisitor View Post
Just discovered the following explanation about alphanumeric callerIDs on Wikipedia:

So you can't do anything to make your name appear with the called party. It all depends on the called party's phone company which must have access to the caller's phone company database in order to get names for each number.
It also matters what the database has for a number. On prepaid it may not have the same database as monthly contract subscribers. If that's the case all you'll get when a T-Mobile prepaid calls is the identification "cellular caller (name of operator.)


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