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Caller ID
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Caller ID

A telephone company service that sends the caller's telephone number between the first and second ring of the call. If the calling number is not blocked, the calling number is displayed on the handset or base station of the called party. This is one feature within a set of services called Custom Local Area Signaling Services (CLASS). See ANI.


Caller ID - (CID) A feature of some modems.


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Traced to his home through caller identification, Norman Mangram told deputies he made the call as a joke hoping to have black teens kept home from school, officials said.
Other features include caller identification, customer segmentation, adaptive questioning and Web-based reporting.
However, advances in telephone service options - most notably caller identification services - require that law enforcement agencies take a close look at how they use the telephone.
 
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