charles wrote:

In article
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Owain wrote:
On Feb 24, 9:54 pm, Bob Eager wrote:
Which is a pain for real callers from behind switchboards like
myself.
Reputable companies and organisations don't hide phone numbers.
I just wonder what mechanism you would employ to *not* hide numbers..

Some form of "presentation number"

which might be the DDI of the council switchboard extension or a
general number. There's unlikely to be a problem presenting a BCO
number, but in some cases the council would not want to reveal that eg
social work had phoned, if they couldn't speak to the person they
wanted.

there is also the possibility that the person who called is working from
home. They cetainly wouldn't want to give out their home number.


As I work from home 2 days a week, I got myself a SipGate VOIP acount which
I advertise as my work contact number (in preference to my desk phone as the
college answerphone system is rubbish and SipGate can email answerphone
messages to me).

Works very well. And I do not withold that number - as I can easily disable
ringing for calls targetting that when I am not working.


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Tim Watts