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Default Phones - Caller i/d (a bit OT)

On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 16:19:58 GMT, "Brian Sharrock"
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Hmm ? My 'phone doesn't have an alphastring of 'INTERNATIONAL' anywhere in
it's library of names .... examines handset ( six stored in total with
alphastrings of WORK, MOBILE, DOCTOR etc. ). What is the source for
'INTERNATIONAL' ?


The phone firmware - also for "unavailable" and "withheld" (which is
why different people see different words on different phones - it
depends what the manufacturer has put in so withheld may display as
"private". CLI is passed in the UK between the first a second ring
as a tone burst and comprises only numbers.
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