[spang]

Twice now I have done 1471 on the phone and it has been all zeros. Has anyone had this?

[paulyoung666]

i aint

[johnny utah]

Yes, I have had this several times, ignore it it is nothing important

[spang]

Thanks.

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.

[ilovekrys]

toucan is an 01625 number

[cheesy_pasty]

I've had it as well...its companies trying to remain anonymous.

[welshyyyyy]

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

[ben93]

Originally Posted by welshyyyyy

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

Let it all out dont lock it up inside

[TheFirstCut]

Many people / companies send out spoof CLID. It's a way of getting around anonymous caller reject without giving out their number.

I used to spoof CLID with various unknown numbers.

[pjb007]

Hey I think we had that as well

[TheFirstCut]

Originally Posted by spang

it seems to be a 1471/bt screw up.

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.

[kev]

Originally Posted by TheFirstCut

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.

[That Bloke]

Originally Posted by kev

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.