Date   : Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:53:11 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: 101 uses for a speech system (number 62)

Sprow <info@...> wrote:
> Hi,
> Caller display has been around for about 10 years now as digital exchanges
> got installed the coverage increased. Just recently, for BT at least, the
> service is now free (other service providers may charge a nominal fee per
> quarter), so why not use your beeb to log all those missed calls?
 
Coo! I'll have to have a play with that!
 
> This has the advantage that you're not restricted to only having one call
> stored by dialling "1471", multiple call numbers times and dates can be
> stored.
 
And the additional advantage that if the voicemail catches the
call and deletes the 1471 number, the beeb has logged it.  Too
many times now I've run in from the garden and the phone has
stopped ringing just before I get to it, and 1471 can't give me
the number, because the caller didn't hang up, they got put
through to voicemail!  Grrr...
 
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