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Old Oct 16, 2012 | 10:02 am
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Originally Posted by LIH Prem
Another good question.

Read this and consider filing comments/complaints with the FCC. As long as customers can choose what gets sent in the caller-id field, I don't see how they can enforce it. End users can choose it in a variety of ways, including software and hardware methods, and it's especially easy with voice over IP.

https://www.fcc.gov/guides/caller-id-and-spoofing

-David
What the phone company could do is simply not put through any call where the caller ID field didn't match either the line or a number that that line was approved to use.
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