In article .
com, Owain scribeth thus
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.

Owain


It isn't really a problem they can preset a CLI of their switchboard
reception number like they do here in Cambridge.

01223 457000


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Tony Sayer