I was a bit worried, my parents are away abroad and I let the cordless phone batteries go dead, and when I charged it that was the last number. For some reason I got worried it was someone trying to get hold of me for some emergency reason.
I searched the internet and someone on another forum said it is Toucan Telecom, and while I can't believe a company could have this number, it seems to be a 1471/bt screw up.
not totally on topic but "Plumb local" is 08080000000 which is close !
the useless company rang me to confirm a booking for a plumber but the bloke couldnt be bothered to turn up !
like i say off topic but just thought i'd say
not totally on topic but "Plumb local" is 08080000000 which is close !
the useless company rang me to confirm a booking for a plumber but the bloke couldnt be bothered to turn up !
like i say off topic but just thought i'd say
No you can spoof the CLID. You can send various presentation CLID, you can just program the number you wish it to display.
I used to use VoIP to spoof. I can't now spoof any old number, they have clamped down, I can only spoof numbers I have access to. So I can send out the CLID of my landline, my mobiles, or other VoIP lines.
Users who have ISDN lines can program any number to display.
I'm not sure if it's our PABX or BT Exchange but our ISDN30 at work just becomes "withheld" if you don't use one of the numbers on our account.
It's more likely to be the PABX. A lot of the time BT won't even know what numbers you actually have if you are using 08xx redirects. It could, however, be a configuration option at the exchange that hasn't been set for your account.
Certainly when I was working in the call recording industry people had no problem passing CLIDs that weren't on the 'BT' side of the network. In fact, for some of the outbound stuff we allowed the CLID to be set depending on what the agent was doing in our software at the time. Whether this was effective depended on the switch model they were using though, we couldn't do it on all.
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I was a bit worried, my parents are away abroad and I let the cordless phone batteries go dead, and when I charged it that was the last number. For some reason I got worried it was someone trying to get hold of me for some emergency reason.
I searched the internet and someone on another forum said it is Toucan Telecom, and while I can't believe a company could have this number, it seems to be a 1471/bt screw up.
the useless company rang me to confirm a booking for a plumber but the bloke couldnt be bothered to turn up !
like i say off topic but just thought i'd say
Let it all out dont lock it up inside:rolleyes:
I used to spoof CLID with various unknown numbers.
No you can spoof the CLID. You can send various presentation CLID, you can just program the number you wish it to display.
I used to use VoIP to spoof. I can't now spoof any old number, they have clamped down, I can only spoof numbers I have access to. So I can send out the CLID of my landline, my mobiles, or other VoIP lines.
Users who have ISDN lines can program any number to display.
I'm not sure if it's our PABX or BT Exchange but our ISDN30 at work just becomes "withheld" if you don't use one of the numbers on our account.
It's more likely to be the PABX. A lot of the time BT won't even know what numbers you actually have if you are using 08xx redirects. It could, however, be a configuration option at the exchange that hasn't been set for your account.
Certainly when I was working in the call recording industry people had no problem passing CLIDs that weren't on the 'BT' side of the network. In fact, for some of the outbound stuff we allowed the CLID to be set depending on what the agent was doing in our software at the time. Whether this was effective depended on the switch model they were using though, we couldn't do it on all.