charles wrote:

In article ,
Tim Watts wrote:
Bill wrote:


Also some large companies do not display their number, otherwise the
switch board gets inundated with "someone called me 3 hours ago, no I
don't know who!" OK if they could forward a DDI No, but not sure that
many can.

Well, that's just lazy.

They could assign a presentation number which is answered by an automated
system (like most big companies have anyway) which announces the company
name[1] and offeres a simple menu system for sales etc.

The most ghastly invention.


Better than having a "number unavailable".

In an ideal world the presentation number would lead to the switchboard, but
that's not going to happen...
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Tim Watts